Comparative Evaluation of Transhipment Technologies for Intermodal Transport and Their Cost

The objective of this study is to provide a technical and economical comparative analysis of intermodal loading units (LU) and transhipment technologies (TT) as one of the foundations of intermodal transport and their operating and total system costs which will support the European Commission in future legislative and financial initiatives to increase sustainability in the transport sector through modal shift. To this end, the technical specifications, necessary investments, operational costs and effectiveness of different intermodal loading units and transhipment technologies were identified. Furthermore, combinations of loading units and transhipment technologies in intermodal transports are compared within each other and with road-only unimodal transports. The study is divided into four main technical tasks aiming to establish the following set of information: • a detailed list of all different types of loading units and transhipment technologies in intermodal transport (Task 1); • costs and investments needed for all different transhipment technologies (Task 2); • EU and Switzerland intermodal network data (Task 3); • comparative analysis of different transhipment technologies (Task 4). The present report shows the results addressed in carrying out the above-mentioned Tasks. In particular Chapter 3 will provide the results addressed in performing Task 1 and Task 2, Chapter 4 is dedicated to Task 3 and finally Chapter 5 will present the results of Task 4.

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    • © European Union, 2022. Publication date on the EU website is 2022-04-07. Publication date on the inner cover page is 22 February 2022.
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    Directorate-General for Mobility and Transport (European Commission)

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    KombiConsult GmbH, Frankfurt/Main (DEU)

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    PriceWaterhouseCoopers

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  • Publication Date: 2022-2

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  • English

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  • Media Type: Digital/other
  • Edition: Final Report
  • Features: Appendices; Figures; Maps; Photos; Tables;
  • Pagination: 583p

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  • Accession Number: 01845775
  • Record Type: Publication
  • ISBN: 9789276491484
  • Contract Numbers: MOVE/D1/SER/2019-280/SI2.839699
  • Files: TRIS
  • Created Date: May 19 2022 10:41AM