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| Author: | Macharis, C. Bontekoning, Y.M. |
| Title: | Opportunities for OR in intermodal freight transport research: A review |
| Journal: | European Journal of Operational Research
2004 : MAR, VOL. 153:2, p. 400-416 |
| Index terms: | Operational research Transport Logistics Models |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | Intermodal transport reflects the combination of at least two modes of transport in a single transport chain, without a change of container for the goods, with most of the route traveled by rail, inland waterway or ocean-going vessel, and with the shortest possible initial and final journeys by road. Operational Research has focused mostly on transport problems of uni-modal transport modes. This paper argues that intermodal freight transportation research is emerging as a new transportation research application field, that it still is in a pre-paradigmatic phase, and that it needs a different type of models than those applicated to uni-modal transport. In this paper a review is given of the operational research models currently used in this emerging field and the modelling problems. |
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