Freight Villages: Warehouse Design and Rail Link Aspects

Inland Container Logistics and Interports. Goals and Features of an Ongoing Applied Research

“…Instead, in Japan, Singapore, China and the USA, the most common and widely used term to indicate an interport is "logistic centre". Therefore, there is no unanimous definition of this kind of inland freight node and in some cases differences between countries exist not only in terms, but as far as the concepts and detailed solutions are concerned as well (Ballis, 2006;Dalla Chiara et al, 2002;Europlatforms EEIG, 2004;Jaržemskis and Vasiliauskas, 2007;Kapros et al, 2005;Meidute, 2005;Rimiene and Grundey, 2007;Tsamboulas and Dimitropoulos, 1999;Uniontrasporti, 2007). Nevertheless, the article 1 of the Law No.…”

Efficiency analysis of European Freight Villages: three peers for benchmarking

“…The term "Freight Village" (FV) refers to a defined area organized for carrying out all activities related to transport, logistics and distribution for both national and international transit (Ballis 2006). Initially, it was established in response to the challenges posed by regional population and freight growth; however, with ongoing increase in globalized trade, FVs are widely used in the process of trade and transportation in the world (Wu and Haasis 2013).…”

Research on Logistics Parks: Literature Review and Outlook

“…Planning plays a critical role in LPs due to the costs of land acquisition, and long-term construction period (Ballis 2006).…”

“…The former group primarily focuses on planning principles, influential factors, functional partitions and operational patterns (Yang and Xiao 2003). The facilities layout problem examines how to assign and design different facilities in LPs like warehouse (Ballis 2006). Some researches devoted to discuss the reasonable place and size to LPs (Á guas and Antunes 2007; Ballis and Mavrotas 2007).…”