Abstract The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) entails investments to improve overland (rail)
transport between Europe and China. This paper introduces a microscopic Multi-Commodity …

This paper develops a novel procedure to conduct a Freight Origin-Destination Synthesis
(FODS) that jointly estimates the trip distribution, mode choice, and the empty trips by truck …

As a result of the port reforms in Japan, the Japanese government has intensively invested
in physical infrastructure to maintain the trunk routes at selected and legally repositioned first …

Contrasted with the unimodal road mode, multimodal transport is potentially more feasible
as it saves cost and lower environmental effect. This paper investigates freight transport and …

As part of the global efforts to mitigate climate change, policymakers are designing
measures to reduce the carbon emissions of the freight transport system. As global …

This paper presents an analysis of the potential impacts of large-scale adoption of driverless
trucks on transport patterns and system costs for a national freight transport system with …

For several decades, modal shift within the freight transport sector has been promoted by
policy makers as an important basis for achieving lower transport emission targets. Even …

Freight transportation in Brazil is characterized by the predominance of the road mode. This
imbalance in the sector suggests the need to develop efficient strategies that can increase …

Last-mile deliveries using drones and robots have recently emerged as alternatives to
deliveries using conventional trucks. Because of the newness of the topic, there has been no …

The goal of this research is to help develop effective freight demand management (FDM)
programs to reduce the amounts of “panic buying” purchases. Such programs are …