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- Almotairi, Badi, 1970, et al.
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Information Flows Supporting Hinterland Transport: Applications in Sweden
- 2010
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In: Dryport Conference, Edinburgh, 21-22 October.
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This article analyses how information and communication technology (ICT) is used to support hinterland transport of maritime containers. The focus is on how information is conveyed between actors using an ICT facility structure and how integrative information is used by different partners’ information systems for making the different transport operations more efficient and enabling an improved service offer. The analysis includes identification of the actor network and the management components in line with supply chain management (SCM) perspectives. To support this analysis a conceptual model showing the relationship between the integrative information and integrative technology was constructed and related to business process and an ICT maturity model found in the literature. Interviews have been conducted with actors involved in Swedish hinterland rail transport. The information flows have been mapped and the analysis shows that the current level of integration and ICT maturity is fairly low, but that several actors currently are modernising their systems. Their main motivation is to reduce the administrative tasks, rather than achieving a supply chain integration. The article shows that a proper handling of the information flow opens up for new business models and can make existing models more efficient. The ICT system must support the proper integration of the ocean, seaport and hinterland parts of the transport chain as well as auxiliary services.
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- Bergqvist, Rickard, 1979, et al.
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Establishing intermodal terminals
- 2010
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In: World Review of Intermodal Transportation Research. - 1749-4729 .- 1749-4737. ; 3:3, s. 285-302
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- 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 terminals. Based on rational choice theory and two Swedish case studies, Falköping/Skaraborg and Nässjö/Jönköping, factors identified and analysed are: profitability, financiers, political entrepreneur, location, large local shippers, and the traffic authorities. Profitability combined with an enthusiastic and committed political entrepreneur are the most vital factors for the success and pace of the development process.
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- Woxenius, Johan, 1967
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Flexibility vs. specialisation in European short sea shipping
- 2010
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In: International Association of Maritime Economists (IAME) Annual Conference 2010, Lisbon 7-9 July.
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- 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 delicate tasks for transport system designers and marketing managers. A particular type of compromise between transport demands is passenger and freight travel in the same vehicle or vessel. The purpose of this article is to adapt theory on openness and controllability, characterise a selection of flexible and specialised European short sea shipping concepts and analyse how substantial changes in the future character of the competition with road and rail can affect the development of ferry shipping in the South Baltic Sea. The central theoretical concepts in this article are commercial openness, technological openness, trade-offs and controllability. The analytical framework rests on a matrix, with commercial openness and technological open-ness on the axes, originally developed for analysing intermodal freight transport systems. The matrix is here used for categorising the four main short sea shipping segments using traditional single-deck bulk carriers: container feeder vessels, ferries, bulk carriers and tankers. The ferry category is further analysed and divided into sub-segments in the empirical context of the South Baltic Sea. Foreseeable changes in key cost and competition parameters until 2020 are taken into account in discussing potential scenarios. A plausible outcome for the ferry/RoRo shipping segment is that one branch with relatively fast passenger ferries and one branch with slow and energy efficient freight services will be diverted from the current homogenous market offer.
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- Woxenius, Johan, 1967
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Freight transport detours
- 2010
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In: The 12th World Conference on Transport Research, Lisbon, 11-15 July 2010.
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Conference paper (other academic/artistic)abstract
- 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, the economy of and practical possibilities for consolidation and access to return flows. This work examines detours by structuring and elaborating upon the causes of freight transport detours and briefly analysing their effect. Detours are divided into supply chain, logistics and freight transport detours respectively and most attention is paid to the last kind of detour. Freight transport detours are divided into physical, political, commercial, operational and non-planned causes for detours. The first two stipulate the system environment in which the focused actors, transport service providers, decide upon detours. Operational causes are subject to internal decision making whereas commercial and non-planned causes are both external and internal to transport service pro-viders. The work is qualitative and is presented as a work-in-progress; therefore, coherent quantitative evidence is still lacking.
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- Woxenius, Johan, 1967, et al.
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Innovation drivers and barriers in intermodal freight transport
- 2010
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In: Logistics Research Network Annual Conference (LRN), Harrogate, 8-10 September.
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Conference paper (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Intermodal freight transport (IFT) represents a complicated if not complex transport system encompassing a wide variety of relationships between actors, activities, and technical resources. This implies certain inertia to change. The work of IFT system designers and inventors of technical resources is like running in a labyrinth facing a wide range of restricting factors. Inventors have designed numerous technological components and sub-systems for intermodal liner trains but they share the feature of not being used commercially in a large scale. In order to understand the nature of technical and organisational innovation in IFT systems, thorough knowledge about these limiting factors is essential and this article aims at filling part of this knowledge gap. The purpose of the article is to analyse processes that foster or impede the implementation of technological and organisational innovations in IFT in general, and IFT liner trains in particular.
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