Johan Woxenius

Johan Woxenius
University of Gothenburg | GU · Department of Business Administration

Doctor of Philosophy

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Introduction
Johan Woxenius is professor of Maritime Transport Management and Logistics at University of Gothenburg since 2008. He got the degrees of M.Sc. (Industrial engineering) and PhD at Chalmers University of Technology. His main research field is maritime and intermodal freight transport and the research covers sustainability, industrial organisation, production systems, traffic designs, information systems and technology evaluations. Increasingly, he engages in urban freight research.
Additional affiliations
July 2011 - December 2011
University of Nairobi
Position
  • Visting professor
May 2005 - December 2007
Blekinge Institute of Technology
Position
  • Guest professor
Description
  • Guest professor (at 25%) in intelligent transport systems, assistant supervisor for two PhD students and teacher in various courses:
June 1991 - January 2008
Chalmers University of Technology
Position
  • PhD student to Associate Professor
Education
September 1987 - May 1991
Chalmers University of Technology
Field of study
  • Industrial Engineering

Publications

Publications (153)
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This study investigates the relationship between personality traits and grocery hoarding. Data were obtained from a representative sample of the U.S. population (N = 1,149) through a web-based survey conducted during the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic. Grocery hoarding was assessed as a dichotomous variable, capturing whether respondents sto...
Technical Report
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The purpose of the report is to describe and analyse how international container shipping was affected by the Covid-19 pandemic and other disruptions. The analysis takes a Swedish perspective on disruptions and tries to go beyond the anecdotal reporting and capture what happened and why.
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Purpose Severe disruptions to maritime supply chains, including port closures, congestion and shortages in shipping capacity, have occurred during the COVID-19 pandemic. This paper’s purpose is to explore flexibility-based countermeasures that enable actors in maritime supply chains to mitigate the effects of disruptions with different characterist...
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EU recently decided to include shipping, meaning all intra-European shipping and 50% of extra-European voyages, in the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS) beginning in 2024. This article provides an early assessment of the impacts of the EU ETS on the shipping sector’s potential reductions in greenhouse gas emissions for different types of ships. It...
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Understanding and meeting stakeholder demands for sustainability while striving for improved business performance (BP) presents a significant challenge. The shipping industry has been relatively slow in its sustainability efforts. However, it faces mounting pressure from various stakeholders, particularly customers (i.e., shippers directly or via l...
Technical Report
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Global transportation is one of the major contributors to greenhouse gas emissions. Ports play an important role for the leap towards a more sustainable transport ecosystem. Over the years, empowered by the Swedish innovation project I.Hamn, a concept for the sustainable port has been developed by the Swedish ports (see Appendix 1). This effort has...
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Rapidly evolving needs of shippers, rising competition, advancement in digital technologies and a quest to increase cost and operational efficiencies are all driving the digital transformation of maritime logistics. However, in contrast to other industries such as media, telecom, banking, retail and even other traffic modes, the often family-contro...
Technical Report
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The European Green Deal from the European Commission in 2019 set a high aim: that EU will become climate neutral by 2050. As a part of this, the European Commission proposed that the EU Emission Trading System (ETS), is extended to include the maritime sector. This report assesses different design features of shipping in ETS, analyse the impact on...
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The development of coastal shipping (CS) in Africa has been identified as a way to bolster the continent’s freight transport network. Thus, our study examined the recent CS experiences of three regional shipping lines in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA)—Ocean Africa Lines, Adom Mbroso Transport and United Africa Feeder Line—operating respectively in Southe...
Technical Report
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Swedish authorities, national, regional and local, have shown significant interest in using urban waterways for logistics. However, the use of urban waterways for logistics in Sweden is very limited. In this report, we analyze what authorities can do to support the implementation of waterborne urban logistics (WUL) in Sweden. Our results indicate t...
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Modal shift from road to water is a strategy prioritised by both the European Union and many of its member states. However, inland waterways remain underutilised in most member states, and even the small number of countries in which inland waterway transport is well established, the sector faces fierce competition from road-based solutions. There i...
Technical Report
Projektet utvecklar kunskap som bidrar till säkrare transporter av farligt gods. En nollvision för transport av farligt gods har utvecklats som belyser behovet av ökad medvetenhet, ändamålsenliga regelverk, rätt kompetens, stärkt säkerhetsrådgivarroll, informationstillgång, IT-system med samverkansförmåga, synliggörande av dolt farligt gods samt ef...
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Transport of dangerous goods creates substantial utility to society, but carries a risk to the environment, health and safety. Some of the accidents and incidents occurring during dangerous goods transport can be attributed to poor practices, such as misdeclaration or failure to declare the goods. This pre-study aims to investigate the problem of u...
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This paper presents an innovative methodological framework for determining urban freight flows using a multimodal origin-destination synthesis (ODS) model, which we ran with a novel combination of primary and secondary data. Primary data included classified traffic volume counts at limited locations, whereas secondary data, enriched with certain te...
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to study current practices in adopting blockchain technology amongst export companies in West Sweden and to capture their CEOs’ knowledge of and attitudes towards blockchains. Design/methodology/approach Factors enabling or hindering the adoption of blockchains were identified from a comprehensive literature re...
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The consequences of an accident involving a truck or a train are often substantial, but the stakes increase considerably if the vehicle carries dangerous goods that can harm people, other living organisms, the environment, property and cause disturbances in the transport system. It is of great interest to shippers, transport providers and society a...
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This chapter explores some of the financial processes where maritime informatics could make a difference and improve existing practices. The chapter takes the principle logic of how maritime transport serves the cargo owner, the passenger, or the transport buyer. The chapter acknowledges different types of costs and risks associated with maritime t...
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After an era of developing large-scale hinterland access for maritime containers by use of rail and inland waterways, research interest and practice has witnessed a slight shift towards port-centric logistics. The big question is where to open import containers and close and seal the ones for export goods. Is it better done in the port vicinity or...
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In essence, Maritime Route Planning relates to the scheduling of a vessel for performing a transport assignment and deciding on the appropriate path between ports. Focusing the transport service for goods and passengers, commercial route planning relates to how to design the transport service including selecting vessel, schedule, speed and path bet...
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This chapter explores some of the financial processes where maritime informatics could make a difference and improve existing practices. The chapter takes the principle logic of how maritime transport serves the cargo owner, the passenger, or the transport buyer. The chapter acknowledges different types of costs and risks associated with maritime t...
Technical Report
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Mandatory speed reductions have been proposed by different parties within the International Maritime Organization (IMO) as a short time measure to reduce the emissions of greenhouse gases from shipping. This study assesses what consequences it can have for Swedish shipowners and the Swedish business society that relies on maritime transportation in...
Technical Report
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The aim of this project is to assess the overall design and consequences of including maritime transports in the EU emission trading scheme (EU ETS) - the main joint EU policy for reducing greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions. This has been proposed in the Directive 2018/410 with a timeline to year 2023, to await IMO acting on implementing measures to...
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This chapter focuses on shipping on short and medium distances, domestically or within an economic region often referred to as Short Sea Shipping (SSS). It gives an overview of the main SSS segments and particularly elaborates on the two SSS signature segments, Roll-on/roll-off shipping and container feeder shipping. Geographically and empirically,...
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Many port authorities have developed ambitious strategies to foster hinterland intermodal transportation. In addition, port-centric logistics, that is, the provision of distribution facilities and value-adding activities in the port area, has expanded in multiple ports. Obviously, such port-centric logistics may impact the operations in the hinterl...
Technical Report
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Sweden trades intensely with its neighbours in Northern Europe and a substantial part of the trade is moved by short sea shipping. Ferries connecting Sweden with Denmark, Germany and Poland are crucial transport links for manufactured goods, but the maritime crossing is often minimised while the distance over land is maximised. As a result, almost...
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Trans-ocean liner shipping companies adopt slow steaming during periods when the market is characterised by low demand, high fuel prices, low freight rates and overcapacity. The most recent instance in which this occurred was the period following the 2008/2009 global financial crises, and the speeds have not yet rebounded to the pre-crisis levels....
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This paper analyses strategies to overcome barriers to a modal shift to inland waterway transport (IWT). Barriers identified in research literature have been categorised as regulatory, financial, service quality and market characteristics. Using two cases involving Swedish entrepreneurs initiating IWT, this paper has shown how barriers to the modal...
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Sustainability in maritime transport has been an issue of major concern during the last decades [...]
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Roll on–roll off (RoRo) shipping represents a maritime segment that could easily form part of an intermodal transport system, as cargo does not need to be lifted in ports; it is ‘rolled’ to and from sea. This paper investigates the operation of RoRo shipping services in Northern Europe, focusing on a set of services chartered by a major shipper who...
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The Southern African Development Community (SADC) region is an economic community comprised of 16 countries in Southern Africa with a goal to achieve development, peace, security, and economic growth. Developing the regional freight transport system is essential for accomplishing these objectives. This paper investigates the potential of short sea...
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Many geographically peripheral member states of the EU are critically dependent on short sea Roll-on/Roll-off (RoRo) and mixed freight–passenger (RoPax) shipping services for intra-European trade. The implementation of the Sulfur Emission Control Area (SECA) regulation was expected to raise the operating cost for RoRo and RoPax shipping, and slow s...
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This chapter considers the port–city interactions over time and highlights how these have changed. A new phase of these interactions may be at hand with significant implications for urban freight movements. Ports’ strategies are constantly evolving and port managers seek to make better use of the port’s assets. One of the main assets is land and he...
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Approximately 80 per cent of European and American citizens live in an urban environment. Due to their large populations and extensive commercial establishments, urban areas require large quantities of goods and services for commercial and domestic use. This results in increasing levels of demand for freight transport services. Freight transport in...
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Roll on-Roll off (RoRo) shipping represents a maritime segment that could easily form part of an intermodal transport system, as cargo does not need to be lifted in ports, it is ‘rolled’ to and from sea. This paper investigates the operation of RoRo shipping services in Northern Europe, focusing on a set of services chartered by a major shipper who...
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When container shipping lines experience over-capacity and high fuel costs, they typically respond by decreasing sailing speeds and, consequently, increasing transport time. Most of the literature on this phenomenon, often referred to as slow-steaming, takes the perspective of the shipping lines addressing technical, operational and financial effec...
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In recent years, the location of logistics facilities, in particular with regard to “logistics sprawl,” has emerged as a topic in the literature that is, a process of spatial decentralisation of logistics facilities in large metropolitan areas. The aim of this paper is to look at logistics sprawl patterns in the Gothenburg metropolitan area, in the...
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The goal of this paper is to explore the intersection between two streams of literature: port cities and port-centric logistics. While many ports have moved out of city locations, partly facilitated by intermodal corridors, some ports remain in city locations, many retaining a large share of distribution activity in or near the port. This paper wil...
Technical Report
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This study investigates the latest trends related to transnational transport corridors in the OIC geography, identifies the common challenges these corridors are facing and proposes recommendations for enhancing effective and efficient transnational transport corridors. The ultimate aim of the study is to raise awareness of transnational transport...
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This exploratory paper contributes to a new body of research that investigates the potential of digital market places to disrupt transport and mobility services. We are specifically looking at the urban freight sector, where numerous app-based services have emerged in recent years. The paper specifically looks at ‘instant deliveries,’ i.e. services...
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Many geographically-peripheral member states of the EU are critically dependent on short sea RoRo and RoPax shipping services for intra-European trade and passenger transport. The implementation of sulphur emission control areas (SECAs) regulation was expected to amplify operating costs for RoRo and RoPax shipping. Earlier research has approached t...
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The paper provides insight into a comparison of the parking practices and problems of freight-vehicle drivers in Gothenburg, Sweden, and Delhi, India. The purpose of this study is to understand how parking problems are related to relevant characteristics of the study zones, e.g., geographical location, transport mode used for last-mile deliveries,...
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The issue of speed is more complex for RoRo/RoPax vessels than other segments. A Swedish research team has addressed the preconditions for introducing slow steaming in Northern Europe and asked operators in Scandinavian waters how they prepared and have acted under SECA.
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Based on interviews and two workshops with the main stakeholders as well as media coverage, this article analyses the changes in the market from the deregulation leading up to the Swedish market exit of CargoNet, the former monopolist provider of intermodal freight transport, and the events that followed. The analysis applies business model theory....
Technical Report
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This report is commissioned by the World Bank as part of the project “Mombasa: Options for the Port City Interface”. The project addresses the issue of asymmetric distribution of costs and benefits, where a port benefits a different area than the one suffering from the costs. The project’s empirical focus is the port-city interface in Mombasa, Keny...
Technical Report
This report presents the findings of a study, and presents international experiences on port – city interface, together with the situation in Mombasa specifically, a developed decision support tool and the impacts of a number of policy options on the port - city interface in Mombasa. The report is intended to contribute to an increased understandin...
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'The last mile' is a phrase commonly used in a logistics and freight transport context to highlight the special characteristics and challenges in moving goods within urban areas in what is usually the last leg of a long freight transport chain. The last mile challenge often also involves changing mode of transport for that leg, categorizing the tra...
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Ports’ importance for international trade and for local, regional, and national economies is often empha-sized by port authorities, governments, and the business community alike. The argument goes that the port has to grow for domestic industry to be competitive internationally and against other ports with over-lapping hinterland. At the same time,...
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This editorial captures the phenomenon that the stream of curiosity-driven, ‘continuous’, research funded by the universities’ internal means or foundations is drifting apart from the impact-driven, ‘projectified’, research funded by public-sector agencies with industrial influence and co-funding.
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As the key nodes in our global transport system, ports are increasingly pushed to improve the sustainability of their hinterland transport system. In this paper, we use the Multi Actor Multi Criteria Analysis to evaluate four possible measures for improving the sustainability of the ports’ hinterland transport systems. This methodology allows expli...
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In this paper an attempt is made to apply a joint logistics and transportation perspective on combined transport. Three conceptual models are used to explain the mutual complement of logistics and trans- portation, the increasing business process and transactional orientation of the industrial manufacturing system and the resulting fast increase in...
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Short sea shipping is an important part of regional transport networks in many parts of the world, and efficient container shipping is vital for trade and industry in Northern Europe. The purpose of this paper is to define a container shipping concept, the Short Sea Shuttle concept, and to analyse the conditions under which the concept is competiti...
Book
This book will bring a state of the art overview of the research done in sustainable logistics. It will be structured along the four A's of sustainable logistics: 1 Awareness: it is important that companies and policy makers are aware of the effects of their activities and policies. New methods to estimate the effects of the logistic activities and...
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The implementation of MARPOL Annex VI in the North and Baltic Sea Sulphur Emission Control Area (SECA) has raised economic concerns among shippers and shipowners, as well as spurred policymakers to appeal to various interests, such as citizen health, export industry competitiveness, and consumer prices. To justify their cases, policymakers and stak...
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This paper discusses the negative impacts of freight transport growth, especially in and around urban areas. Over time, a growing number of road freight vehicles have delivered less freight over longer distances, while average load factors have been reduced. This development is unsatisfactory, as transport capacity that could have been used more ef...
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Efficient short sea shipping is vital for trade and industry in Northern Europe. About 90% of the volume of goods exported or imported to Sweden is transported by ships in at least one part of the transport chain. It is therefore important to find cost-effective solutions for shipping in order to improve the global availability of goods in Northern...
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At the 9 th WCTR in Seoul, we outlined six approaches for coping with heterogeneous goods in freight networks and gave common real-world examples of Logistics Service Providers' actions. This article is a follow-up that re-uses the conceptual framework created in 2001 to develop the theory further and to analyse how the approaches are used in real-...
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Based on interviews and two workshops with the main stakeholders as well as media coverage, this article analyses the changes in the market from the deregulation leading up to the Swedish market exit of CargoNet, the former monopolist provider of intermodal freight transport, and the events that followed. The analysis applies business model theory....
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The focus of this article is to identify, characterise and qualitatively evaluate the existing measures for increasing the utilisation of loading space in intermodal road–rail freight line trains. Normally, these trains operate like intercity passenger trains, because they make short unit load transhipment stops along rail corridors in order to tra...
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This is the final report of the Short Sea Shuttles pre-study project. The work has been sup-ported by Västra Götalandsregionen, Trafikverket and Logistik och Transportstiftelsen LTS, which are all gratefully acknowledged. The purpose of the study is to develop and define a well-integrated container shipping concept – The Short Sea Shuttle Concept –...
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This paper analyses a set of measures for transport efficiency improvements from the perspective of the road haulier, particularly regarding improvements suitable for urban distribution and their effects. The first part of the paper addresses literature within the area of transport efficiency. The second part reviews potential transport efficiency...
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This paper investigates small road haulier's spatial location and road network accessibility in relation to proposed freight consolidation centres (FCCs). For many decades, the overall load factor in freight vehicles has decreased; smaller volumes of goods have been transported over longer distances. To counteract this, a well-planned localisation...
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The trade-off between flexibility and specialisation implies delicate tasks for transport system designers and marketing managers. The outcome of their efforts ranges from highly specialised solutions for a restricted number of users and types of cargoes to very open systems for common use adapted to accommodate a wide variety of transport demands....
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From the perspective of a transport service buyer and at the abstraction level of material flows, all transports travel directly from product supplier to product customer. In reality, however, the directness of transport services depends on factors such as geography, available infrastructure, temporary conditions, shippers' qualitative preferences,...
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This article analyses how information and communication technology (ICT) is used to support the hinterland transport of maritime containers. It focuses on the way information is conveyed between actors using an ICT facility structure, and how integrative information is used by different partners’ information systems to make different transport oper...
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The purpose of this article is to investigate why rail is used to move semi-trailers to and from seaports to lesser extent than it is used to move maritime containers, and which actions can foster an increase of semi-trailer transport by rail. The two types of load units are obviously used in quite different logistics settings. The two transport se...
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This article analyses the phenomenon of hinterland transport by rail and the remarkable journey that has taken place during the last ten years in Europe, especially in Scandinavia. Furthermore, it includes a brief examination of how current trends affect the role and development of rail for hinterland transport. In fact, particularly in Scandinavia...
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This article analyses the phenomenon of hinterland transport by rail and the remarkable journey that has taken place during the last ten years in Europe, especially in Scandinavia. Furthermore, it includes a brief examination of how current trends affect the role and development of rail for hinterland transport. In fact, particularly in Scandinavia...
Technical Report
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Syftet med utredningen är att utifrån befintliga kombiterminalsetableringar belysa och tydliggöra effekterna av en kombiterminal samt visa på varför olika etableringar lyckas mer eller mindre bra.
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This study examines the development process of intermodal road-rail freight terminals. Of particular interest are factors affecting the development process and the time needed to establish intermodal road-rail terminals. The results are intended not only to be interesting to researchers, but also of practical use to actors developing intermodal ter...
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From the perspective of a transport service buyer and at the abstraction level of material flows, all transports travel directly from product supplier to product customer. In reality, how-ever, the directness of transport services depends on factors such as geography, available infrastructure, temporary conditions, shippers' qualitative preferences...
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Over the years, shipping has developed in phases where the main features of ships, the operational principles, the surrounding systems and the market offer have either been designed for a wide scope of transport demands or have been optimised to suit narrow demand characteristics. The trade-off between flexibility and specialisation implies delicat...
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The dry port concept is based on a seaport directly connected by rail with inland intermodal terminals where containers can be dealt with in the same way as if they were in a seaport. The main purpose of the article is to extend the theory behind the dry port concept and to define three dry port categories; distant, midrange and close. The findings...