The impacts of major government initiatives on the development of dry ports: A case study of the direct port delivery scheme in India

Gujar, Girish; Ng, Adolf K.Y.; Notteboom, Theo

doi:10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2019.102498

“…Especially, Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands have invested considerably in terminals through subsidies for certain parts of the terminal infrastructure. However, the actual contribution to regional-economic development is questionable at best, and sometimes such governmental incentives also lead to overcapacity of terminal facilities (Gujar et al, 2020;Witte et al, 2014Witte et al, , 2017. Other policies to increase IFT infrastructure capacity include, e.g.…”

Section: Increasing Freight Transport Capacitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Shifting towards sustainability Questioning the effectiveness of policymaking for intermodal freight transport

Wiegmans¹,

Jong²,

Oort³

et al. 2022

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Stimulating combined and Intermodal Freight Transport (IFT) to foster sustainability has been on the global policy agendas for a long time. An understudied dimension in this debate is the effectiveness and efficiency of IFT policies. This paper presents an academic literature review of goals, indicators and methods of IFT policies. An ex-post evaluation of the 2001 and 2011 EU white papers on freight transport shows that from a policy dimension, attention to modal shift, sustainability and capacity is visible, but that ambitious goals are oftentimes not supported by concrete targets and realistic budgets. Our proposed alternative, a GIS data-based exploration of the dense IFT network in the Netherlands shows that many industrial or logistics companies are already located at strategic locations with multi-modal accessibility. That despite this

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“…Especially, Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands have invested considerably in terminals through subsidies for certain parts of the terminal infrastructure. However, the actual contribution to regional-economic development is questionable at best, and sometimes such governmental incentives also lead to overcapacity of terminal facilities (Gujar et al, 2020;Witte et al, 2014Witte et al, , 2017. Other policies to increase IFT infrastructure capacity include, e.g.…”

Section: Increasing Freight Transport Capacitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Shifting towards sustainability Questioning the effectiveness of policymaking for intermodal freight transport

Witte

¹

,

Wiegmans

²

,

Jong

³

et al. 2022

WRITR

0

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Stimulating combined and Intermodal Freight Transport (IFT) to foster sustainability has been on the global policy agendas for a long time. An understudied dimension in this debate is the effectiveness and efficiency of IFT policies. This paper presents an academic literature review of goals, indicators and methods of IFT policies. An ex-post evaluation of the 2001 and 2011 EU white papers on freight transport shows that from a policy dimension, attention to modal shift, sustainability and capacity is visible, but that ambitious goals are oftentimes not supported by concrete targets and realistic budgets. Our proposed alternative, a GIS data-based exploration of the dense IFT network in the Netherlands shows that many industrial or logistics companies are already located at strategic locations with multi-modal accessibility. That despite this

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“…However, the long-term survival of the dry port depends largely on their ability to respond to market forces and add value to the supply chain. Refers to the researches on the inland ports of the United States (Lakshmanan, 2011), Sweden (Gonzalez-Aregall & Bergqvist, 2019), India (Gujar et al, 2019), and Brazil (Ng et al, 2013), if the government policy violates the market law, it will hinder the development of this dry port. In addition, with the development of globalization, new requirements are put forward for the development of seaports.…”

Section: Integration Of Inland Port and Sea Portmentioning

confidence: 99%

Research on the Innovation Imbalance Between Coastal and Inland Port Cities Along the Belt and Road: Based on the Three Helix Theory

Chen

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2021

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Port cities will be the important growth poles along the Belt and Road, including coastal and inland ports. But the innovation stimulus driven by the Belt and Road Initiative on the coastal and inland port cities is imbalance. This research takes two groups of Chinese port cities as empirical objects, one has coastal port and the other has inland port, and then establishes a system dynamics model based on the theory of triple helix to analyze port cities’ innovation features. The empirical case shows that the positive stimulation of Belt and Road Initiative to innovation activities of coastal port cities is better than that of inland cities in general. If the decision makers of inland cities want to achieve innovation output like that of developed coastal areas, they need to encourage local universities and research institutes to conduct more market-oriented research on one hand. On the other hand, they need to cooperate with multinational companies; meanwhile, they need to provide more technical resources for local start-ups. In addition, stimulating local house prices and living pressure in a reasonable range can stimulate the innovation enthusiasm of existing R&D personnel, attract top talents to join in, and then drive the innovation output of the whole region.

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The impacts of major government initiatives on the development of dry ports: A case study of the direct port delivery scheme in India

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Shifting towards sustainability Questioning the effectiveness of policymaking for intermodal freight transport

Shifting towards sustainability Questioning the effectiveness of policymaking for intermodal freight transport

Shifting towards sustainability Questioning the effectiveness of policymaking for intermodal freight transport

Research on the Innovation Imbalance Between Coastal and Inland Port Cities Along the Belt and Road: Based on the Three Helix Theory

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