Описание: Intermodal Freight Transportation conceptualizes intermodal transport as a set of physical, logical, financial and contractual flows, examining the barriers that impact intermodal freight services and the resulting performance variables.
Intermodal Freight Transportation begins by discussing the overall freight transport market, covering transport modes, agents, as well as supply and demand patterns. It looks at the key drivers and trends influencing the freight transportation sector, analyzing the evolution of supply and logistics chains and the impacts of technological advancements such as autonomous vehicles and e-commerce.
The book looks at transport agents such as shippers, freight forwarders, integrators, and customs, as well as the demand for freight transport services and the key properties of goods. It examines key transport chains, comparing intermodal, multimodal, and combined transport concepts and architectures.
Intermodal Freight Transportation offers new tools for analyzing and building effective transport chains, depicting them as a set of component technology, information, responsibility, and financing dimension. It discusses the key organizational, regulatory, infrastructure, and technological barriers, focusing on measuring global performance and metrics. The book concludes with a look into the future of the freight transport sector.
- Step-by-step approach introduces key topics for understanding efficient intermodal transportation
- Based on the concept of fitness between the modes of transport profiles
- Numerous real-world cases throughout
- Examines performance metrics
