Simulation of intermodal freight transportation systems: a taxonomy

TG Crainic, G Perboli, M Rosano - European Journal of Operational …, 2018 - Elsevier
Intermodal transportation refers to multimodal chains or networks involving at least two
transportation modes, freight being packed into a “container” and not being handled at …

Towards freight transport system unification: reviewing and combining the advancements in the physical internet and synchromodal transport research

T Ambra, A Caris, C Macharis - International Journal of Production …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
To achieve socio-economic and environmental sustainability, utilization of existing
capacities and assets has become a key challenge for the transportation sector. This …

Multimodal transportation network with cargo containerization technology: Advantages and challenges

X Feng, R Song, W Yin, X Yin, R Zhang - Transport Policy, 2023 - Elsevier
Traditional multimodal transportation dispatching of roads, railways, and maritime has been
studied for years. This study investigates a bulk cargo distribution problem in a multimodal …

Improving the resilience of maritime supply chains: The integration of ports and inland transporters in duopoly markets

J Shi, J Chen, L Xu, Z Di, Q Qu - Frontiers of Engineering Management, 2023 - Springer
The adverse impact of the outbreak of COVID-19 has reduced ports' operational efficiency.
In addition, ports and inland logistics providers are generally independent of each other and …

Uncertainty in intermodal and synchromodal transport: Review and future research directions

T Delbart, Y Molenbruch, K Braekers, A Caris - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
Long-haul continental freight flows still heavily rely on unimodal road transport. Intermodal
transport, combining road transport with other transport modes, has the potential to have …

Synchromodal transport planning with flexible services: Mathematical model and heuristic algorithm

Y Zhang, W Guo, RR Negenborn, B Atasoy - Transportation Research Part …, 2022 - Elsevier
As a critical feature of synchromodal transport (ST), service flexibility plays an important role
in improving the utilization of resources to reduce costs, emissions, congestions, and delays …

A multi-objective sustainable load planning model for intermodal transportation networks with a real-life application

A Baykasoğlu, K Subulan - Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and …, 2016 - Elsevier
Growing importance of intermodal transportation necessitates modeling and solving load
planning problems by taking into account various complex decisions simultaneously like …

[HTML][HTML] Augmented Lagrangian relaxation-based coordinated approach for global synchromodal transport planning with multiple operators

W Guo, Y Zhang, W Li, RR Negenborn… - … Research Part E …, 2024 - Elsevier
Global synchromodal transportation is a promising strategy for providing efficient, reliable,
flexible, and sustainable container ship** services across continents. It involves …

An ETA prediction model for intermodal transport networks based on machine learning

A Balster, O Hansen, H Friedrich, A Ludwig - Business & Information …, 2020 - Springer
Transparency in transport processes is becoming increasingly important for transport
companies to improve internal processes and to be able to compete for customers. One …

A review of fleet planning problems in single and multimodal transportation systems

A Baykasoğlu, K Subulan, AS Taşan… - … A: Transport Science, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
This paper mainly evaluates the previously published fleet planning researches which
primarily utilize operations research and computational intelligence based techniques. An …