Highway transportationThe shift away from the use of a single mode of transportation for a shipment inthe favor of an intermodal approach is an important trend in contemporary freight transportation. Until the 1980s, intermodal services attracted cost conscious shippers of low value, non-time ...
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Railroad - Intermodal, Freight, Vehicles: An important competitive development has been the perfection of intermodal freight transport systems, in which highway truck trailers or marine shipping containers are set on railroad flatcars. In North America a
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STCC (Standard Transportation Commodity Codes) The STCC system is a 7-digit coding structure designed to classify all commodities or articles which move or may move in freight transportation. Steel Wheel Interchange Containers or trailers that are interchanged between two railroads while on the railroa...
The top intermodal freight companies - known as intermodal marketing companies (IMCs) - work directly with Class 1 railroads to coordinate rail service. The largestintermodal transportationproviders account for the majority of market share and own their containers. ...
Simulation of intermodal freight transportation systems: a taxonomy 2018, European Journal of Operational Research Citation Excerpt : The studies at the national level usually considered multimodal or intermodal networks (75%) rather than unimodal networks (25%). The most studied networks were composed ...
This book on intermodal freight transportation contains eighteen chapters. They are: 1. What is Intermodal Freight Transport?; 2. United Kingdom (UK) and European Union (EU) Policies for Intermodal Transport; 3. Intermodal Developments in the UK; 4. Intermodal Transport in Europe; 5. Intermodal...