Comparative evaluation of existing and innovative rail–road freight transport terminals

Βallis, Athanasios; Golias, John

doi:10.1016/s0965-8564(01)00024-6

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“…The intermodal terminal is the heart of the FV and multimodal trans-shipment enables the consolidation of transport, creating strong logistics processes by boosting efficiency (Ballis and Golias 2002). Accordingly, it is essential to take these two facilities as substantial resources to support the output, which can be measured in both area and capacity.…”

Section: Identification Of Input and Output Variablesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Efficiency analysis of European Freight Villages: three peers for benchmarking

Yang

Taudes

Dong

2015

Cent Eur J Oper Res

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Measuring the performance of Freight Villages (FVs) has important implications for logistics companies and other related companies as well as governments. In this paper we apply Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to measure the performance of European FVs in a purely data-driven way incorporating the nature of FVs as complex operations that use multiple inputs and produce several outputs. We employ several DEA models and perform a complete sensitivity analysis of the appropriateness of the chosen input and output variables, and an assessment of the robustness of the efficiency score. It turns out that about half of the 20 FVs analyzed are inefficient, with utilization of the intermodal area and warehouse capacity and level of goods handed the being the most important areas of improvement. While we find no significant differences in efficiency between FVs of different sizes and in different countries, it turns out that the FVs Eurocentre Toulouse, Interporto Quadrante Europa and GVZ Nürnberg constitute more than 90% of the benchmark share.

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Section: Identification Of Input and Output Variablesmentioning

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Efficiency analysis of European Freight Villages: three peers for benchmarking

Yang

Taudes

Dong

2015

Cent Eur J Oper Res

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“…Schijndel and Dinwoodie, 2000; Ballis & Golias, 2002;Woodburn, 2003;Arnold et al, 2004;Runhaar & van der Heijden, 2005;Janic, 2007;Slack & Vogt, 2007;Kreutzberger, 2008; Van der Horst & de Langen, 2008;Kim & Wee, 2011;Woodburn, 2011;Eng-Larsson & Kohn, 2012). The institutional constraints on the intermodal freight system in general and site development in particular have also been addressed (Hesse & Rodrigue, 2004;Notteboom & Rodrigue, 2005;Rodrigue, 2006;Roso, 2008;Rodrigue & Notteboom, 2010;Flämig & Hesse, 2011;Ng & Cetin, 2011;Monios & Wilmsmeier, 2012b;Padilha & Ng, 2012;Ng et al, 2013).…”

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Identifying Governance Relationships Between Intermodal Terminals and Logistics Platforms

Monios

2015

Transport Reviews

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“…These transhipment yards only consist of additional truck lanes (typically one lane for parking and another one for driving, see Ballis and Golias, 2002). A storage yard is often residing only near the yard and, thus, only accessible via additional truck moves.…”

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Scheduling Freight Trains in Rail-Rail Transshipment Yards

Boysen

Jaehn

Pesch

2011

Transportation Science

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Transshipment yards, where gantry cranes allow for an ecient transshipment of containers between dierent freight trains, are important entities in modern railway systems and facilitate the general shift from point-to-point transport to hub-and-spoke railway systems. Modern rail-rail transshipment yards accelerate container handling, so that multiple smaller trains with equal destination can be consolidated to a reduced number of trains without jeopardizing on time deliveries. An important problem continuously arising during the daily operations of a transshipment yard is the train scheduling problem, which decides on the succession of trains at the parallel railway tracks. This problem with a special focus on resolving deadlocks and avoiding multiple crane picks per container move is investigated within the paper on hand. A mathematical program along with a complexity proof is provided and exact (Dynamic Programming) and heuristic (Beam Search) procedures are described.

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Comparative evaluation of existing and innovative rail–road freight transport terminals

Cited by 77 publications

References 8 publications

Efficiency analysis of European Freight Villages: three peers for benchmarking

Efficiency analysis of European Freight Villages: three peers for benchmarking

Identifying Governance Relationships Between Intermodal Terminals and Logistics Platforms

Scheduling Freight Trains in Rail-Rail Transshipment Yards

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