Intermodal freight transport and logistics

✍ Scribed by Bergqvist, Rickard; Monios, Jason

Publisher: Taylor & Francis; CRC Press
Year: 2017
Tongue: English
Leaves: 299
Edition: Edition 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Applying sophisticated management techniques to freight transport offers the potential for significant cost savings as well as greater efficiency. Yet the inherent complexity of intermodal transport presents many challenges.

This practical textbook on the operations of intermodal transport and logistics focuses on the practical concerns and the basics of operations, such as vehicles, containers, handling operations, logistics management and optimisation. All chapters are written by field specialists, and the volume includes additional chapters on economics, law and the environment to put the practical topics into context.

It presents a balanced textbook for postgraduate students and also a reference text for those in industry or the public sector involved in the planning of intermodal freight transport.

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Introduction: Introduction to intermodal freight transport and logistics / Jason Monios and Rickard Bergqvist --
Operations: Intermodal transport equipment / Rickard Bergqvist and Jason Monios --
Rail operations / Allan Woodburn --
Inland waterway operations / Bart Wiegmans and Ron van Duin --
Road distribution from the intermodal perspective / Rickard Bergqvist, Jason Monios and Snke Behrends --
Intermodal terminal design and operations / Rickard Bergqvist --
The port interface / Jürgen W. Böse --
Frameworks: Intermodal system management and economics / Jason Monios and Johan Woxenius --
Intermodal logistics / Jason Monios and Rickard Bergqvist --
Legal aspects of multimodal transport / Abhinayan Basu Bal --
Analysis: Design and modelling of intermodal systems / Jonas Flodén, Dries Meers and Cathy Macharis --
Operations research and intermodal transport / Teodor Gabriel Crainic and Mike Hewitt --
Environmental aspects of intermodal transport / Erik Fridell.

✦ Subjects

Containerization;Freight and freightage;Business logistics

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