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Modelling Transport Systems—I Operational, Economic, Environmental and Social Performances
Published in Milan Janić, Transport Systems, 2017
Intermodal freight transport provides transportation of consolidated load units, such as containers, swap-bodies and semi-trailers by combining at least two different transport modes (EC 2002a). The vehicles meet at the intermodal terminals and exchange load units according to a given procedure using the transshipment facilities and equipment. In Europe, intermodal freight transport is often perceived as a potentially strong competitor and an environmentally friendlier alternative to road freight transport particularly in the medium- to long-distance corridors-markets. However, the developments to date have not confirmed such expectations. For example, during the 1990–1999 period, the European intermodal freight transport grew steadily from an annual volume of about 119 to about 250 billion t-km2 and consequently increased its market share in the total freight transport3 volume from about 5–9 per cent. This happened mainly after enhancement of operations on the Trans-European corridors-markets of length of about 900–1000 kms, which contained about 10 per cent of the goods volumes (tons). During the same period, in the markets-corridors of length of about 200–600 kms containing about 90 per cent of the total goods volumes, the share of intermodal transport was only about 2 per cent and 2–3 per cent in terms of the volumes of t-km and the quantity of goods (tons), respectively. After the year 1999, the above-mentioned market shares have become increasingly flattering. The main reasons are a rather low containerization rate of goods of about 5–6 per cent, deterioration of the quality of services of the intermodal transport (main mode(s)-railways) and further improvement in the efficiency and quality of road transport services (EC 1999, 2000, 2001a; Janić 2007, UIRR 2000).
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Published in Michael L. Madigan, HAZMAT Guide for First Responders, 2017
An intermodal container is a large standardized shipping container, designed and built for intermodal freight transport, meaning these containers can be used across different modes of transport—from ship to rail to truck—without unloading and reloading their cargo. Intermodal containers are primarily used to store and transport materials and products efficiently and securely in the global containerized intermodal freight transport system, but smaller numbers are in regional use as well.
What Is Intermodal Freight Transport?
Published in Lowe FCILT David, Intermodal Freight Transport, 2006
Intermodal freight transport, as previously outlined in the Preface, is the concept of utilizing two or more ‘suitable’ modes, in combination, to form an integrated transport chain aimed at achieving operationally efficient and cost-effective delivery of goods in an environmentally sustainable manner from their point of origin to their final destination.
Analysing the impact of value added services at intermodal inland terminals
Published in International Journal of Logistics Research and Applications, 2020
Sonja Maria Protic, Christian Fikar, Jana Voegl, Manfred Gronalt
Intermodal freight transport defines a movement of goods in one and the same loading unit or road vehicle, while combining a minimum of two transport modes without any handling of the goods themselves (United Nations 2001). At freight terminals, intermodal transport units are transshiped or stored. Within the European Union, approximately 800 freight terminals with high relevance for infrastructure planning and development are in operation (European Commission 2013). These terminals carry out highly complex operations when transshipping load units. The focus of this paper is on the service offer of intermodal inland terminals. The aim is to identify promising new value added services (VAS), to reveal a terminal operator's motives behind a strong service offer and to find an answer to the question of operational impacts a new service implementation may have on a terminal's perfomance.