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Design concepts for interchanges in a future intermodal and co-modal rail freight transport system

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The objective of this paper is to present some design concepts for interchanges, including rail-road, rail-rail and rail-sea terminals referred to 2030 and 2050 horizons. 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By exploring the current state of the current rolling stock fleet and its productivity level, the paper conducts research to identify the rolling stock requirements in 2050 for the EU27 combining quantitative and qualitative research methods. Considering the Transport White paper 2011 targets, three scenarios are considered; a) Reference Scenario \u2013 extrapolation of current trends without major policy change; b) White Paper 2011 Low Scenario (WPLS) based on a pessimistic view of the modal shift targets and c) White Paper 2011 High Scenario (WPHS) based on the full realisation of modal shift targets. To determine the future fleet size, the current paper also conducts a sensitivity analysis assuming 60% productivity level as a base", "author" : [ { "dropping-particle" : "", "family" : "Islam", "given" : "DMZ", "non-dropping-particle" : "", "parse-names" : false, "suffix" : "" }, { "dropping-particle" : "", "family" : "Jackson", "given" : "R", "non-dropping-particle" : "", "parse-names" : false, "suffix" : "" }, { "dropping-particle" : "", "family" : "Robinson", "given" : "M.", "non-dropping-particle" : "", "parse-names" : false, "suffix" : "" } ], "container-title" : "Transport Research Arena 2014", "id" : "ITEM-2", "issued" : { "date-parts" : [ [ "2014" ] ] }, "publisher-place" : "Paris", "title" : "Necessity of rolling stock in 2050 to meet European Transport White paper 2011 target", "type" : "paper-conference" }, "uris" : [ "http://www.mendeley.com/documents/?uuid=c286784f-4cf6-42e9-9e97-bd01f8a003b6" ] }, { "id" : "ITEM-3", "itemData" : { "author" : [ { "dropping-particle" : "", "family" : "Capacity4Rail", "given" : "", "non-dropping-particle" : "", "parse-names" : false, "suffix" : "" } ], "id" : "ITEM-3", "issued" : { "date-parts" : [ [ "2015" ] ] }, "title" : "Requirements toward the freight system of 2030/2050", "type" : "report" }, "uris" : [ "http://www.mendeley.com/documents/?uuid=2420805c-be41-402d-93cd-0e8cc9ab55ce" ] } ], "mendeley" : { "formattedCitation" : "(Capacity4Rail, 2015; Islam, Jackson, & Robinson, 2014; Islam, Jackson, Zunder, Laparidou, & Burgess, 2013)", "plainTextFormattedCitation" : "(Capacity4Rail, 2015; Islam, Jackson, & Robinson, 2014; Islam, Jackson, Zunder, Laparidou, & Burgess, 2013)", "previouslyFormattedCitation" : "(Capacity4Rail, 2015; Islam, Jackson, & Robinson, 2014; Islam, Jackson, Zunder, Laparidou, & Burgess, 2013)" }, "properties" : { "noteIndex" : 0 }, "schema" : "https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json" }(Capacity4Rail, 2015; Islam, Jackson, & Robinson, 2014; Islam, Jackson, Zunder, Laparidou, & Burgess, 2013) suggest that there will be a higher demand of rail freight service in 2030 and beyond. The studies also emphasis that the rail freight industry will need to prepare them to meet the customer demands of the future such as reliability, on-time-in full delivery, door-to-door instead of terminal-to-terminal services etc. The intermodal and co-modal interchanges are an important area that can appear as a barrier or enabler to reliable door to door intermodal and co-modal freight services ADDIN CSL_CITATION { "citationItems" : [ { "id" : "ITEM-1", "itemData" : { "author" : [ { "dropping-particle" : "", "family" : "Islam", "given" : "DMZ", "non-dropping-particle" : "", "parse-names" : false, "suffix" : "" } ], "container-title" : "TRANSPORT PROBLEMS", "id" : "ITEM-1", "issue" : "3", "issued" : { "date-parts" : [ [ "2014" ] ] }, "title" : "BARRIERS TO AND ENABLERS FOR EUROPEAN RAIL FREIGHT TRANSPORT FOR INTEGRATED DOOR-TO-DOOR LOGISTICS SERVICE . PART 1 : BARRIERS TO MULTIMODAL RAIL FREIGHT TRANSPORT", "type" : "article-journal", "volume" : "9" }, "uris" : [ "http://www.mendeley.com/documents/?uuid=103b2e0a-7916-4a68-9c27-dff7cf1cecf1" ] }, { "id" : "ITEM-2", "itemData" : { "abstract" : "The objective of this paper is to examine and identify barriers to and enablers for the European rail freight transport services as a transport chain partner along the supply chains in the changing market scenario. The changing market scenario includes, among others, requiring 'door-to-door' rather than 'terminal to terminal' and integrated service, competitive ability to attract non-rail cargo type, changes in the customer requirements (e.g. reliable service) and changes in the operational requirements and practices. Using a literature review method, the paper is presented in two parts. The part 1 (published in Transport Problems VOL. 9 Issue 4, pp 43-56) focuses on the identification of barriers to the European rail freight service by reviewing freight logistics services for global supply chains followed by the current performance of European rail freight transport followed by a discussion on the rail freight market liberalisation in Europe. Then rail freight transport in the Unites States (U.S.) is discussed. The research notes that although the background, scope and necessity for reform measures in Europe differ from those of the U.S., some lessons can be learned and the main lesson is that an appropriate reform measure can enhance rail sector competitive ability in Europe. The part 2 of the paper is dedicated to recommend some concrete steps and actions as enablers to remove the barriers identified in the part 1 to develop multimodal rail freight transport. The enablers for multimodal rail freight transport include: \u2022 European rail freight transport market needs full liberalisation so that incumbent and new entrants can compete freely. \u2022 The rail operators need to acquire service (e.g. customer tailored services, door to door service) quality offered by road freight operators. \u2022 They need to conduct a combination of \u2018terminal-to-terminal\u2019 and door-to-door operations, as and when needed; \u2022 They must build partnership with freight forwarder or 3PLs to include all types of customers including SMEs and customers of non-rail (low density high value) cargo. \u2022 They need to use the consolidation centres that facilitate bundling of cargoes in particular for the urban areas which are the location of majority European customers.", "author" : [ { "dropping-particle" : "", "family" : "Islam", "given" : "DMZ", "non-dropping-particle" : "", "parse-names" : false, "suffix" : "" } ], "container-title" : "TRANSPORT PROBLEMS", "id" : "ITEM-2", "issue" : "4", "issued" : { "date-parts" : [ [ "2014" ] ] }, "title" : "BARRIERS TO AND ENABLERS FOR EUROPEAN RAIL FREIGHT TRANSPORT FOR INTEGRATED DOOR-TO-DOOR LOGISTICS SERVICE . PART 2 : ENABLERS FOR MULTIMODAL RAIL FREIGHT TRANSPORT KOLEJ \u0104 DO ZINTEGROWANEJ OBS \u0141 UGI LOGISTYCZNEJ DOOR-TO-DOOR .", "type" : "article-journal", "volume" : "9" }, "uris" : [ "http://www.mendeley.com/documents/?uuid=db1ccd71-5833-4852-a24d-85fc06890f4a" ] } ], "mendeley" : { "formattedCitation" : "(Islam, 2014a, 2014b)", "plainTextFormattedCitation" : "(Islam, 2014a, 2014b)", "previouslyFormattedCitation" : "(Islam, 2014a, 2014b)" }, "properties" : { "noteIndex" : 0 }, "schema" : "https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json" }(Islam, 2014a, 2014b). This is in particular crucial in the context of achieving modal shift to rail from road transport as by the European Commission ADDIN CSL_CITATION { "citationItems" : [ { "id" : "ITEM-1", "itemData" : { "DOI" : "COM(2011)144", "author" : [ { "dropping-particle" : "", "family" : "European Commission", "given" : "", "non-dropping-particle" : "", "parse-names" : false, "suffix" : "" } ], "id" : "ITEM-1", "issued" : { "date-parts" : [ [ "2011" ] ] }, "publisher" : "European Commission", "publisher-place" : "Brussels", "title" : "Transport White Paper - Roadmap to a Single European Transport Area \u2013 Towards a competitive and resource efficient transport system", "type" : "report" }, "uris" : [ "http://www.mendeley.com/documents/?uuid=1e939e4b-09cc-4e30-96f4-13af2dab571a" ] } ], "mendeley" : { "formattedCitation" : "(European Commission, 2011)", "plainTextFormattedCitation" : "(European Commission, 2011)", "previouslyFormattedCitation" : "(European Commission, 2011)" }, "properties" : { "noteIndex" : 0 }, "schema" : "https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json" }(European Commission, 2011). The current paper starts by assessing the key functionalities of the existing rail interchanges, identifies the major needs and areas of improvements ADDIN CSL_CITATION { "citationItems" : [ { "id" : "ITEM-1", "itemData" : { "author" : [ { "dropping-particle" : "", "family" : "Mangone", "given" : "A", "non-dropping-particle" : "", "parse-names" : false, "suffix" : "" }, { "dropping-particle" : "", "family" : "Ricci", "given" : "S", "non-dropping-particle" : "", "parse-names" : false, "suffix" : "" } ], "container-title" : "IF - Ingegneria Ferroviaria", "id" : "ITEM-1", "issued" : { "date-parts" : [ [ "2014" ] ] }, "title" : "Modeling of port-freight village systems and loading units' tracing functions.", "type" : "article-journal", "volume" : "1" }, "uris" : [ "http://www.mendeley.com/documents/?uuid=c7bd4fe8-1406-43e8-959d-0ed35d0e396a" ] } ], "mendeley" : { "formattedCitation" : "(Mangone & Ricci, 2014)", "plainTextFormattedCitation" : "(Mangone & Ricci, 2014)", "previouslyFormattedCitation" : "(Mangone & Ricci, 2014)" }, "properties" : { "noteIndex" : 0 }, "schema" : "https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json" }(Mangone & Ricci, 2014) including innovative technologies and operational approaches affecting design standards and methodologies ADDIN CSL_CITATION { "citationItems" : [ { "id" : "ITEM-1", "itemData" : { "author" : [ { "dropping-particle" : "", "family" : "Ricci", "given" : "S", "non-dropping-particle" : "", "parse-names" : false, "suffix" : "" } ], "container-title" : "Transport Research Arena 2014", "id" : "ITEM-1", "issued" : { "date-parts" : [ [ "2014" ] ] }, "publisher-place" : "Paris", "title" : "Systematic approach to Functional Requirements for Future Freight Terminals", "type" : "paper-conference" }, "uris" : [ "http://www.mendeley.com/documents/?uuid=611db198-c5a8-4c0c-a892-270af132e456" ] } ], "mendeley" : { "formattedCitation" : "(Ricci, 2014)", "plainTextFormattedCitation" : "(Ricci, 2014)", "previouslyFormattedCitation" : "(Ricci, 2014)" }, "properties" : { "noteIndex" : 0 }, "schema" : "https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json" }(Ricci, 2014), operational practices, key performance indicators. By means of cost-benefit analysis criteria (e.g. using extended automation and/or achieving shorter-turn-around time through faster transhipment along the transport chain), the paper will present approaches offering cost- and time-effective improved freight services towards future reliable rail freight services.


Publication metadata

Author(s): Capodilupo L, Islam DMZ, Ricci S

Publication type: Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstract)

Publication status: Unpublished

Conference Name: European Transport Conference 2015

Year of Conference: 2015

URL: https://etcproceedings.org/conference/venue/


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