This book provides an introduction to the whole concept of intermodal freight transport, the means of delivering goods using two or more transport modes, recounting both European experience and UK developments and reporting on the extensive political influences on this form of transport. This is pla
Intermodal freight transport : institutional aspects.
β Scribed by OECD
- Publisher
- OECD
- Year
- 2001
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 71
- Series
- Transport (Paris France)
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Table of Contents
Executive summary --
The project --
Intermodal transport challenges --
Policies, organisational structures and instruments : an overview --
National policies and organisational structures --
Conclusions.
β¦ Subjects
Freight and freightage -- Government policy;Containerization -- Government policy;Organisation de coopeΜration et de deΜveloppement eΜconomiques;UE/CE Union europeΜenne;Cadre institutionnel;Marchandises;Transport multimodal;Goederenvervoer;Kombinierter Verkehr;Transport;Transport
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