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Freight logistics and shipment routing
Published in Dong-Ping Song, Container Logistics and Maritime Transport, 2021
According to the European Conference of Ministers of Transport, intermodal transport is defined as the movement of goods in a single loading unit through two or more successive modes of transport without handling the goods themselves in changing mode during transportation. Multimodal transport is defined as the transportation of freight by using at least two different modes of transport on the basis of a single contract from one place located in a country, in which the multimodal transport operator takes charge of the goods, to a place designated for delivery in a different country (UNCTAD 2003). Although the need for using a single loading unit for freight transportation is not highlighted in the definition of multimodal transport, this is often the case for multimodal transport.
Port Operations
Published in Maria G. Burns, Port Management and Operations, 2018
Intermodal transportation is usually associated with containerization or with the understanding of one transportation mode hauling the products of some other mode, for example, container boxes carrying vehicles. To a great extent, containerization has enabled the time processes and cargo handling, yet it is only one of the many components of intermodalism. Intermodalism pertains to the direct use of more than one transportation mode (air, waterways, railroads, highways, pipelines), in order to facilitate the movement of commodities. It also encompasses nodes in the supply chain that are connected through intermediate warehousing (Middendorf 1998). Intermodalism encompasses “a holistic view of transportation in which individual modes work together or within their own niches to provide the user with the best choices of service, and in which the consequences on all modes of policies for a single mode are considered” (Feldman and Gross 1996).
The Need for Speed
Published in Dawna L. Rhoades, Evolution of International Aviation, 2016
Transportation was one of the areas that witnessed a wave of deregulation beginning in the US in the late 1970s and early 1980s with the Air–Cargo Deregulation Act of 1977, the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978, the Motor Carrier Act (that is, trucking) in 1980, the Staggers Rail Act in 1980, the Shipping Act in 1984, and the Freight Forwarder Deregulation Act in 1986. As noted in earlier chapters, transportation is considered in most countries to be an area of vital national interest and safety so there are still a great many areas of regulation remaining, however, the focus of transportation deregulation was to allow market forces to determine to a much greater extent issues of pricing, capacity, networks, and service quality. In many nations, deregulation also opened up greater opportunities for intermodal transportation. Intermodal transportation refers to the “process of transporting passengers and freight by means of a system of interconnected networks, involving more than one transportation mode, in which all the component parts in the systems process are seamlessly linked and efficiently coordinated” (Boske, 1998). The technical innovations that helped make the supply chain of Wal-Mart successful—computers, scanning, RFID, and so on—were utilized in intermodal transport systems to ensure that goods flowed with minimal delay through the system. Logistics leaders could use this technology to optimize their system based on specific needs—lowest cost, time-to-delivery.
Platooning for sustainable freight transportation: an adoptable practice in the near future?
Published in Transport Reviews, 2020
S. Sivanandham, M. S. Gajanand
Southworth and Peterson (2000) defined intermodal transportation as the movement in which two or more different transportation modes are linked end-to-end to move freight and/or people from point of origin to point of destination. The major reason for the interest in intermodal transportation is its numerous business benefits such as lower costs, flexibility of loading/unloading goods, reduction in handling cost, environmental friendliness because of reduced carbon footprint, scheduling efficiency, reliability and improved safety. Truck transportation will play a vital role in intermodal transportation. Automated driving using guided navigation systems has already been implemented in closed environments for freight transportation such as port terminals, warehouses and factories (Roodbergen & Vis, 2009). Most of the guided systems in ports are transponder-based or magnet-based rather than vision- or sensor-based systems. These circumstances highly favour the implementation of truck platooning in intermodal transportation. Although there have been studies on both platooning and inter-modality, there is little or no study that analysed the impact of platooning on intermodal transportation. More research is required for addressing how platooning will affect handling cost of goods due to its movement in groups and sudden spikes in the arrival of goods. Drayage must also be studied with and without platooning to assess if short distance haulage of goods should also platoon together and to analyse if dedicated freight corridors are necessary for such practices.
An activity theory based approach for ontological modelling of collaborative logistics process dynamics
Published in International Journal of Logistics Research and Applications, 2019
Ying Wang, Lei Huang, Seppe vanden Broucke
Intermodal transportation enables full utilisation of logistics resources through collaborations between different transportation modes (Choong, Cole, and Kutanoglu 2002). In China, where our case study was performed, an increasing amount of cargo is delivered from its origin to its destination through a sequence of highways, railroads and waterways. Collaborative logistics services can be provided in this way through collaborative logistics processes conducted by different service organisations on an international scale. Resources scattered among heterogeneous organisations need to be integrated and utilised in a dynamic context. The case is summarised visually in Figure 6.
Modelling and optimisation of online container stacking with operational constraints
Published in Maritime Policy & Management, 2019
Ceyhun Güven, Deniz Türsel Eliiyi
Intermodal freight transportation is defined as transportation of items and crude materials from origin to destination by a sequence of at least two combinations of transportation modes, such as land, rail or maritime transport (Crainic and Kim 2007). In addition to these three transportation modes, high value and time-sensitive goods are transported by air (e.g. perishable products, pharmaceuticals, blood, etc.). For the majority of cargo types, maritime transport is a favoured mode of intermodal freight transportation, where containers are usually used to carry the goods. This mode of transportation has grown dramatically over the last few decades (Steenken, Voß, and Stahlbock 2004).