Print Email Facebook Twitter Some approaches to reduce transport time of intermodal services: Smart rail investments Title Some approaches to reduce transport time of intermodal services: Smart rail investments Author Vleugel, J.M. Bal, F. Faculty Civil Engineering and Geosciences Department Transport & Planning Date 2012-12-31 Abstract Rail intermodal services are an alternative to all-road services if the average transport time offered by these services is at least comparable. One of the determinants of transport time is how well actors in the transport chain cooperate. In this paper it is shown that substantial improvements in rail transport time are possible if these actors improve their cooperation substantially. This goes along with relatively moderate investments (a few million Euros per case). Such investments may then be regarded as a cost-effective alternative for (multi-billion) investments in rail infrastructure. This is particularly relevant in an era where budgets for rail infrastructure are either limited or create an additional burden for already debt-ridden countries. Subject rail freighttransport time savingscooperationinfrastructure To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:025b4906-a2cb-4f60-8dc8-091e050cc345 Publisher EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste ISSN 1825-3997 Source http://hdl.handle.net/10077/6125 Source European Transport - Trasporti Europei, 52 (3), 2012 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights (c) 2012 The Author(s) Files PDF 292659.pdf 601.54 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:025b4906-a2cb-4f60-8dc8-091e050cc345/datastream/OBJ/view