Study of alternative operation strategies in railroad terminals using simulation

Performance indicators and automatic identification systems in inland freight terminals for intermodal transport

“…Indicators are then better defined, classified, and related to their scope and actors interested on their value. The analysis of the indicators is not as wide as [8][9][10][11][12], but detailed and restricted to the goal of the paper. Martín et al [12], for example, present a very detailed classification of indicators, but these are often globally so it is difficult to use them to locally see the phenomenon.…”

“…A comparison between different railroad terminals with a simulation tool has been done also by Garcìa [10] to evaluating the changes in performance. This paper is contributing to our purpose extending the set of performance indicators, although it does not address the issue of technological improvements.…”

Significance of Proper Selection of Handling Equipment in Inland Intermodal Transport Terminals

“…Intermodal terminals of regional importance operated for freight collection within the region (or terminals in which unified logistics trains are not formed, but only groups of wagons with ITUs that are transported to major "international" terminals are formed) are equipped with stacking vehicles, in particular intermodal crane trucks (reach stackers), which serve either for handling operations (direct reloading between transport modes) and handling of empty ITUs (Rozic et al, 2016;Garcia, 2015).…”