Print Email Facebook Twitter A Decision Support Tool for Strategic Planning of Multimodal Transport Infrastructure Title A Decision Support Tool for Strategic Planning of Multimodal Transport Infrastructure: The Case of Brazil Author van den Boogaard, Raquel (TU Delft Civil Engineering and Geosciences) Contributor Tavasszy, Lorant (mentor) Maknoon, Yousef (mentor) Atasoy, Bilge (graduation committee) Demenint, Wouter (graduation committee) Degree granting institution Delft University of Technology Programme Transport, Infrastructure and Logistics Date 2019-12-13 Abstract The ever increasing need of developing efficient solutions for the transport of cargo, able to reduce transport costs while complying to green policies has promoted the use of multimodal transport during the last decades. Multimodaltransport consists of the use of at least two modes of transportation for the transport of cargo from origin to destination. Governments and transport authorities (network planners) seek to make the optimal investment decisions when choosing where to allocate their budgets. To accomplish this they need to predict the response of the formulated policies on the cargo flow distributions over a multimodal network. Cargo flows over a multimodal network are in turn dependent on the behavior of water and land transport companies (network users), aiming in minimizing their own total costs of transportation. This research has developed a Decision Support Tool that is able to model cargo flows over a multimodal network, and predict the changes of cargo flows as a response to network planners policies. The research has used the freight transport network of Brazil as a testing ground for the model, and focused on improvements on the railway infrastructure. The results of the model suggest that the establishment of new railway connections and higher railway operating speeds can reduce the total costs and environmental footprint of transportation over a multi modal network. Finally, according to the model assumptions, it was concluded network users have a preference towards faster railway services. Subject Freight TransportMultimodal transportationpolicy decisionsRailway network To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:256cb467-8dcf-4dcd-b5c3-5f7db7bb8ebe Part of collection Student theses Document type master thesis Rights © 2019 Raquel van den Boogaard Files PDF Scientific_Paper_Thesis_A ... _draft.pdf 10.18 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:256cb467-8dcf-4dcd-b5c3-5f7db7bb8ebe/datastream/OBJ/view