The new business environment, and the new era of digital transformation put pressure on
the global supply chain and accordingly on ports to cope with such changes; these require …

The research reported in this paper focused on studying various aspects of freight mode
choice in the continental United States (US) including the influencing factors, the …

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 …

Purpose Inland shipping has been extensively recognised as a sustainable, efficient and
good alternative to rail and road modes of transportation. In recent years, various authorities …

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 …

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 …

This paper deals with the issue of the production of electricity required for an electric delivery
van to carry out its daily mission. In particular, the technical solutions adopted for the …

The concept of intermodality has been gaining importance in both freight and passenger
transportation across the world. It is essential to identify critical intermodal infrastructures that …

In logistics and freight distribution, scheduling and cost efficiency are two crucial issues for
transportation companies that look with favour at the innovation introduced by Intelligent …

This paper applies a methodology for computing external costs in an intermodal transport
network that includes short sea shipping to explore the impact of external costs in its …