INTERMODAL TRANSPORT WITH AN HOURLY SERVICE. INTEGRATED TRANSPORT SYSTEMS USING A TRANSPORT CENTRE

HUCKEPACK IM STUNDENTAKT. INTEGRIERTE VERKEHRSSYSTEME DURCH VERKEHRSZENTREN

In focus during the eighties will be the further promotion of intermodal transport with the aim, from the individual and total economic viewpoint, of utilizing for any given stretch of transportation, whichever means is most technically and economically suitable. The basis for a proper intermodal transport service will be the so-called freight centres, for which, even today, the necessary areas of land on the outskirts of towns must be reserved. Freight will be collected in such centres. The railways provide their services as carriers outside the conurbations. Haulage to and from the distribution centre is then made by lorry. The railway would travel - according to the transportation experts - only with light loadable and unloadable flat wagon trains between the distribution centres at regular intervals, similar to the inter-city time-table. Then it would be possible for contractors to undertake corresponding goods movement. With this distribution system it is necessary to change from regional to centre storage, to which the motto applies: movement instead of storage. High storage costs for the individual undertaking would be reduced, the immediate cost-and-time saving goods exchange would enable a completely new calculation to be made. At this colloquium it was particularly stressed that no compulsion or prohibitory measures would be sought, but that the hauliers would continue to have freedom of choice.

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• Corporate Authors:

  Vereingte Motor-Verlag GmbH und Co. KG

  Leuschnerstrasse 1, Postfach 1042
  7000 Stuttgart 1,   Germany 
• Authors:
  • Friedrich, M E
• Publication Date: 1980

Language

• German

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 42-43
• Serial:
  • Lastauto-Omnibus
  • Volume: 57
  • Issue Number: 3
  • Publisher: Vereingte Motor-Verlag GmbH und Co. KG
  • ISSN: 0023-866X

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Economic efficiency; Energy conservation; Freight transportation; Handling and storage; Intermodal transportation; Networks; Physical distribution; Planning; Railroad transportation; Storage facilities; Transportation planning; Trucks
• Uncontrolled Terms: Transportation networks
• Geographic Terms: Germany
• ITRD Terms: 9016: Distribution (gen); 237: Economic efficiency; 212: Energy conservation; 741: Goods traffic; 1121: Intermodal transport (freight); 1236: Lorry; 1054: Network (traffic); 143: Planning; 1173: Rail bound transport
• Subject Areas: Economics; Energy; Environment; Freight Transportation; Motor Carriers; Planning and Forecasting; Railroads; Terminals and Facilities; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00331115
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Bundesanstalt für Straßenwesen (BASt)
• Files: ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: Jun 12 1981 12:00AM