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Design of Unpowered Railway Vehicles
Published in Simon Iwnicki, Maksym Spiryagin, Colin Cole, Tim McSweeney, Handbook of Railway Vehicle Dynamics, 2019
Anna Orlova, Roman Savushkin, Iurii (Yury) Boronenko, Kirill Kyakk, Ekaterina Rudakova, Artem Gusev, Veronika Fedorova, Nataly Tanicheva
Swap bodies mounted on the flat wagon underframe are removed and separated from the underframe while being loaded or unloaded. Swap bodies can be stored in the loaded or empty condition, separately from the car pending unloading or sending for loading. The model range of swap bodies is customised for transportation, loading and unloading of various goods or one in particular. Such designs are used to transport coal, mineral fertilisers, grain and raw materials of woodworking industry. Since the swap body is not intended for road or water transport, it is developed in a vehicle clearance diagram; therefore, its dimensions and volume are much larger than the volume of a multi-purpose container having the same length.
Intermodal Loading Units, Transfer Equipment and Satellite Communications
Published in Lowe FCILT David, Intermodal Freight Transport, 2006
A number of standards are applied to swap body construction, in particular the international standard for swap bodies in Europe established by the Comite Europeén de Normalisation (CEN). Many swap bodies are built and tested to conform to the German DIN standard and to the German Railway, Deutsche Bahn (DB), standard for swap bodies carried on the European rail network. Some swap bodies also conform to the Convention for Safe Containers (CSC) standard described below. Manufacturers marketing this equipment strongly feature the standards approvals achieved by their products.
A new logistics model for increasing economic sustainability of perishable food supply chains through intermodal transportation
Published in International Journal of Logistics Research and Applications, 2021
Tommaso Rossi, Rossella Pozzi, Giovanni Pirovano, Roberto Cigolini, Margherita Pero
At the destination intermodal terminal, FNXs are transshipped from rail cars to trucks. If all the ten FNXs loaded onto the same loading bed have the same destination, the truck will go directly to the delivery point. If the FNXs on the swap body loading bed have different destinations, the truck will stop at a transit point, where the load is split according to the number of delivery points and, if needed, combined with other FNXs from other origin areas. At both hubs and transit points, FNXs are handled and never opened, thus simplifying the transshipment activities and, at the same time, preserving food quality and safety.