Ports hinterland connections: the case of rail shuttles
Paper in proceeding, 2004

This paper focus on the use of rail shuttles in the transportation of unitised goods between ports and their hinterland. Trends as containerisation, overall growth of transportation, congested infrastructure combined with consolidation and vertical integration on the transport market indicate the growing importance and interest in hinterland transports. At the same time do ports around the world experience difficulties in fulfilling customer requirements and demands of society in general with regard to hinterland transit. It is primarily the dominating mode of hinterland transport, road, that has problem coping with increasing volumes at the same time as rail historically has not been able to meet up to market demands.

Hinterland

frequency

intermodal transportation

port throughput

rail shuttle

Author

Arvid Guthed

Chalmers, Department of Logistics and Transportation

Kenth Lumsden

Chalmers, Department of Logistics and Transportation

4th International Congress on Maritime Technological Innovations and Research. Barcelona 2004


84-7653-861-8 (ISBN)

Subject Categories

Production Engineering, Human Work Science and Ergonomics

ISBN

84-7653-861-8

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10/6/2017