Multimodal transportation offers an advanced platform for more efficient, reliable, flexible,
and sustainable freight transportation. Planning such a complicated system provides …

Vehicle routing problems have been the focus of extensive research over the past sixty
years, driven by their economic importance and their theoretical interest. The diversity of …

City logistics aims to reduce the nuisances associated to freight transportation in urban
areas while supporting their economic and social development. The fundamental idea is to …

Tactical planning of operations is comprised of a set of interrelated decisions that aim to
ensure an optimal allocation and utilization of resources to achieve the economic and …

Urban freight transportation constitutes both an extremely important and a rather disturbing
activity. Increasingly, one observes efforts to measure and control freight movements within …

Publisher Summary Intermodal transportation may be defined as the transportation of a
person or a load from its origin to its destination by a sequence of at least two transportation …

Intermodal freight transport has developed into a significant sector of the transport industry in
its own right. This development has been followed by an increase in intermodal freight …

While it is certainly too early to make a definitive assessment of the effectiveness of
Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), it is not to take stock of what has been achieved and …

In a more and more competitive and global world, freight transports have to overcome
increasingly long distances while at the same time becoming more reliable. In addition, a …

Distribution of products throughout a supply chain could be managed via multimodal
transportation networks. This will be more likely in long-haul transportation where a decision …