COMBINED TRANSPORT. SYSTEMS, ECONOMICS AND STRATEGIES

This study shows how to design competitive systems for combined road and rail transport, how to evaluate the competitiveness and profitability of proposed systems, and how to implement the proposals. The aim of the study is to develop theory and methods within these areas as well as to produce information for decision-makers and planners in industry and government. A special research design called a normative case study is developed. This design appears to be of general interest as a method for transport system studies. It is based on theory from marketing, logistics, strategic management and cost-benefit analysis and involves among other things empirical data collection and use of simulation models. The empirical results of the study show that combined road and rail transport can be made commercially competitive with a suitable design and that it is commercially as well as socially profitable to switch from line-based long-haul traffic with trucks to combined traffic on the most important transport routes in Sweden. Establishment and operation of systems for combined road and rail transport necessitates cooperation between the railways, the forwarders and the road carriers. The study analyzes strategies which the participants in combined traffic - and the government - may follow if they want to establish and develop combined traffic according to the model of the study. (Author/TRRL)

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• Corporate Authors:

  Transportforksningsberedningen

  Birger Jarls Torg 5
  Stockholm,   Sweden 
• Authors:
  • Jensen, A
• Publication Date: 1990

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: 438 p.
• Serial:
  • TFB RAPPORT
  • Publisher: Transportforksningsberedningen
  • ISSN: 0282-8014

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Benefit cost analysis; Case studies; Competition; Decision making; Economics; Freight transportation; Intermodal transportation; Motor carriers; Planning; Profitability; Railroads; Simulation
• Geographic Terms: Sweden
• ITRD Terms: 235: Competition; 255: Economics; 741: Goods traffic; 2755: Highway; 1121: Intermodal transport (freight); 6205: Model (not math); 143: Planning; 217: Profit; 1173: Rail bound transport; 9103: Simulation; 8109: Sweden
• Subject Areas: Economics; Freight Transportation; Highways; Motor Carriers; Planning and Forecasting; Railroads;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00617176
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport and Road Research Laboratory (TRRL)
• Report/Paper Numbers: 1990:4
• Files: ITRD, TRIS, ATRI
• Created Date: Nov 30 1991 12:00AM