Assessing dry ports' environmental sustainability

E Varese, C Bux, V Amicarelli, M Lombardi - Environments, 2022 - mdpi.com
Sustainable development and environmental issues related to ports and sea trade have
highlighted the need to enhance transport and trade systems to include green practices …

Optimal subsidy scheme design for promoting intermodal freight transport

Q Hu, W Gu, S Wang - Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Waterborne transport is known to have low environmental impacts compared to other
modes. This paper investigates the optimal container subsidies for shippers to promote …

Determining dry port criteria that support decision making

T de Almeida Rodrigues, CM de Miranda Mota… - Research in …, 2021 - Elsevier
In spite of the increase in the last 10 years, especially in countries with large container
handling in Asia and Europe, research on dry ports is still in its initial phase, focusing on the …

The design of an IoT-based route optimization system: A smart product-service system (SPSS) approach

S Shao, G Xu, M Li - Advanced engineering informatics, 2019 - Elsevier
The aim of route optimization system (ROS) is to design a set of vehicle routes to fulfill
transportation demands, in an attempt to minimize cost and/or other negative social and …

Impacts of COVID-19 pandemic on foreign trade intermodal transport accessibility: Evidence from the Yangtze River Delta region of mainland China

W Hou, Q Shi, L Guo - Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 2022 - Elsevier
We address the problem of the impacts of COVID-19 pandemic on foreign trade transport by
introducing a foreign trade intermodal transport accessibility (FTITA) index. First, we present …

Efficient schedule of energy-constrained UAV using crowdsourced buses in last-mile parcel delivery

Y Pan, S Li, Q Chen, N Zhang, T Cheng, Z Li… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Stimulated by the dramatical service demand in the logistics industry, logistics trucks
employed in last-mile parcel delivery bring critical public concerns, such as heavy cost …

A flexible cost model for seaport-hinterland decisions in container shipping

T de Almeida Rodrigues, CM de Miranda Mota… - Research in …, 2023 - Elsevier
A seaport–hinterland system offers a wide range of service options for shippers and
consignees to export or import containerized cargo. The present study, set within the context …

Quantity discount pricing for rail transport in a dry port system

X Qiu, CY Lee - Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and …, 2019 - Elsevier
A dry port is an inland intermodal terminal connected to a seaport via railways. This paper
studies a rail transportation pricing problem with quantity discounts in a dry port system …

Competitiveness throughout the seaport-hinterland: a container shipping analysis

T de Almeida Rodrigues… - Maritime Policy & …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
With customers looking for the highest level of services and reduction of cost on international
trade of goods, shippers have recently begun to focus on the inland leg of containerized …

Systematic review of literature on dry port concept evolution

N Lamii, F Bentaleb, M Fri, K Douaioui… - … on Maritime Science, 2020 - hrcak.srce.hr
Sažetak Dry port plays an important role in supply chain management and mitigates seaport
problems. The aim of this paper is to review the dry port concept over the different phases …