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Intermodal Transport in Europe
Published in Lowe FCILT David, Intermodal Freight Transport, 2006
Among the measures that the IRU/UIC called for, if combined road–rail transport was to be fully effective, were the following:Increased international co-operation between railway networks, aimed at devising an overall strategy in both the technical and commercial fields.Creation of a pan-European combined transport network by adapting terminal capacities and the dimensions of railway lines to transport units.Stabilized tariffs.Harmonization of the conditions of liability.The optimal and harmonized adaptation of transport techniques to the characteristics of freight units and transloading techniques.Development of timetables adapted to users’ needs.Improved journey time reliability.
Radioactive Materials Transportation
Published in Kenneth D. Kok, Nuclear Engineering Handbook, 2016
Related definitions include loading incidental to movement and unloading incidental to movement. Transloading allows for multiple bulk packages to be consolidated into a single shipment (e.g., the consolidation of bulk bags of radioactive material into a single shipment in a gondola railcar). The definition is of particular importance because it establishes that packages remain in transportation when they are being transloaded from one conveyance to another.
Last-mile delivery efficiency: en route transloading in the parcel delivery industry
Published in International Journal of Production Research, 2022
Juan David Cortes, Yoshinori Suzuki
First, capacity utilisation rates of vehicles receiving shipment transfers improve. With transloading, a receiving vehicle can deliver amounts larger than its capacity without having to return to the depot for reloading – it is reloaded somewhere along its route. Second, capacity utilisation rates of vehicles giving the transfers to other vehicles also improve. With transloading, a vehicle that gives its ‘remaining load’ to another vehicle can return to the depot post-transfer without completing the deliveries that it would otherwise perform, thus reducing the distance it must travel with a light load. As such, transloading can help both vehicles to enhance their capacity utilisation.