Rail freight has not progressed coherently to economy: during the last century, the wagonload was the core business of railways, later declining in favor of combined transport, which include the notion of transshipment in an intermediate terminal. Terminals are a key element of transport services and, in this study, the main goal are methods suitable to evaluate the performances of different types of rail freight terminals: Rail to road for long distance and shorter range units transfer, Rail to rail for shunting and/or gauge interchange, Rail to waterways (sea and inland). The evaluation of the performances of terminals and the influence on them of innovative operational measures and technologies is based on a selected combination of tested analytical methods based on sequential application of algorithms and discrete events simulation models, capable to quantify different Key Performance Indicators.

Present and future operation of rail freight terminals / Antognoli, Marco; Capodilupo, Luigi; Marinacci, Cristiano; Ricci, Stefano; Rizzetto, Luca; Tombesi, Eros. - STAMPA. - (2018), pp. 233-273. [10.1007/978-3-319-78295-9_6].

Present and future operation of rail freight terminals

Antognoli, Marco;Capodilupo, Luigi;Marinacci, Cristiano;Ricci, Stefano;Rizzetto, Luca;Tombesi, Eros
2018

Abstract

Rail freight has not progressed coherently to economy: during the last century, the wagonload was the core business of railways, later declining in favor of combined transport, which include the notion of transshipment in an intermediate terminal. Terminals are a key element of transport services and, in this study, the main goal are methods suitable to evaluate the performances of different types of rail freight terminals: Rail to road for long distance and shorter range units transfer, Rail to rail for shunting and/or gauge interchange, Rail to waterways (sea and inland). The evaluation of the performances of terminals and the influence on them of innovative operational measures and technologies is based on a selected combination of tested analytical methods based on sequential application of algorithms and discrete events simulation models, capable to quantify different Key Performance Indicators.
2018
Transport Systems and Delivery of Cargo on East–West Routes
978-3-319-78294-2
978-3-319-78295-9
economic analysis; financial analysis; freight rail transport; KPI; operational costs; terminals performances; computer Science (miscellaneous); control and systems engineering; automotive engineering; social sciences (miscellaneous) 2001; control and optimization; decision sciences (miscellaneous)
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Present and future operation of rail freight terminals / Antognoli, Marco; Capodilupo, Luigi; Marinacci, Cristiano; Ricci, Stefano; Rizzetto, Luca; Tombesi, Eros. - STAMPA. - (2018), pp. 233-273. [10.1007/978-3-319-78295-9_6].
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