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- Andersson, Dan, et al.
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Trafikslagsövergripande databas för godstransporter
- 2005
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt)abstract
- Många anser att nuvarande statistikproduktionen inom godstransportområdet inte är tillräcklig för att tillgodose alla intressenters olika behov och en komplettering av den officiella statistiken har diskuterats under en låg tid. Syftet med denna förstudie är att identifiera myndigheters och transportbranschens databehov samt krav och önskemål avseende en gemensam godstransportdatabas. Dessutom skall den direkta eller indirekta påverkan från andra intressenter beaktas. Förstudien belyser också de sekretesskrav som påverkar uppbyggnaden av en databas.
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- Hedenus, Fredrik, 1976-, et al.
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Towards a ”Smart Growth” Strategy for Sustainable Development
- 2006
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt)abstract
- Following the launch of the new initiative Energy Policy for Europe (EPE) at the spring summit in March 2006, the next challenge facing the Austrian Presidency of the European Union (EU) is to re-launch the European sustainable development strategy bringing together economic, social and environmental objectives and policies. The purpose of this EPSD report is to contribute both to the debate on energy and to the re-launch of the sustainable development strategy. The report includes: 1) An introduction to the sustainability challenges faced by the EU and the need to integrate economic, social and environmental goals and policies into one comprehensive European strategy; 2) A broad overview of resource efficient technologies, focusing on energy technologies, which can contribute to sustainable production and consumption; and, 3) An analysis of public policies for sustainability, including a discussion of how the Commission proposal “A Platform for Action”, together with the Lisbon strategy and the new EU Green Paper on “Sustainable, Competitive and Secure Energy”, could be developed into a well co-ordinated investment strategy for “smart growth”.
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- Arvidsson, Niklas, et al.
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Options for increasing transport efficiency in urban freight distribution: do more with less
- 2009
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Ingår i: Logistics Research Network Annual Conference (LRN), Cardiff, 9-11 September..
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt)abstract
- This paper seeks to provide a set of structured measures for transport efficiency improvements from the perspective of the road haulier, particularly regarding improvements suitable for urban distribution and their effects, and stressing the need for the road hauliers to cooperate with other actors. The first part of the paper briefly recapitulates some of the literature within the area of transport efficiency. The second part presents potential transport efficiency improvements with respect to environmental and logistics impact. In the third section a summary of these efficiency measures is presented in a matrix, taking into account whether these measures can be seen as costs or benefits for the actors involved. The results show ambiguous and intricate relations with regards to costs and benefits for the actors in the system and could possibly explain some of the resistance to change within the freight industry. However, an increasing amount of transport operators are now offering more sustainable transport solutions, even at a lower price than ordinary deliveries, and this service might gain them a competi-tive advantage in the future.
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- Behrends, Sönke, 1976-, et al.
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Novel rail transport services
- 2010
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt)abstract
- Intermodal road‐rail transport has a medium to high market share for large flows over long distances and for seaport hinterland flows, and competes on cost in these markets with road transport. Due to the small size of this market segment compared to the total transport market the modal shift potential is marginal at best. It is therefore increasingly recognized that the conventional approach to intermodal transport focusing on large flows over long distances may be insufficient to address the persistent problem of a growing modal share of road freight. As a complement to the conventional approach, alternative network operations are needed that allow an intensification of rail services and expansion of geographical coverage. This innovative approach requires fast and efficient transhipment operations, which cannot be achieved by the present conventional terminals since they absorb too much time and money. Hence, technological innovations in the transhipment process will have a major role to play for achieving a modal shift. The raiload technology enables automatic transhipments of standardised loading units below catenaries and thereby makes fast and efficient transhipment operations possible, both for railrail as well as for rail‐road exchange. By that, the technology facilitates the implementation of innovative rail networks. The aim of this research is to analyse how this technological innovation can be integrated in a context of innovative intermodal transport services. The results indicate that fast and efficient transhipment technologies are a prerequisite for intermodal linertrains which can integrate short and medium distance transports in the intermodal system. Linertrains can open business opportunities for operators and cost savings for shippers in a market segment which is dominated by road transport. Furthermore, linertrains can further contribute to reaching policy goals, e.g., lower externalities from freight transport and regional development of far‐off regions. Yet, it is still too early to expect a breakthrough of linertrains. The implementation requires a system innovation but current politics and dominant actors still limit their actions to incremental improvements within the current rail production paradigm and dominant technology based on economies of scale and oppose organisational innovations. However, the fact that the implementation of intermodal linertrains seems to be unrealistic today should not discourage policy makers and stakeholders. System innovations are long‐termprocesses and there are indications that the transition process has started. Continuously increasing freight transport volumes and a significantly increased awareness for sustainable development put the dominating road freight transport paradigm under pressure. As a response, transport politics, transport buyers, and transport operators show an increased interest in intermodal transport. Hence, the current barriers should be seen as challenges to overcome rather than as impediments to progress. To manage the transition towards innovative intermodal transport services and to overcome current barriers, there is a need for connecting the existing dynamics by applying the technological innovation in the existing large‐scale production system. These niche‐applications do not require major changes of transport and logistics structures and can provide room for technological learning and development which is needed to reduce economic uncertainties and risks involved in technological innovations. A promising approach is a new‐generation large scale hub terminal for seaport hinterland flows, since the raiload technology can contribute to solving existing efficiency and capacity problems in this segment of the transport market.
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- Bergqvist, Rickard, 1979-, et al.
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Etablering av kombiterminaler
- 2007
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt)abstract
- Denna rapport är framtagen för Falköpings Kommun inom ramen för projektet SustAccess och behandlar processen att etablera kombiterminaler där lastbärare såsom ISO-containrar, semi-trailrar och växelflak lastas om mellan järnväg och landsväg. Den är en fortsättning och fördjupning av tidigare arbete inom SustAccess. Arbetet har finansierats av Europeiska Kommissionen genom programmet Interreg IIIB och av Västra Götalandsregionen och Falköpings Kommun samt av Banverket och Vägverket via FUD-centret Sir-C. Syftet med studien är att studera hur intermodala terminaler kan etableras. Särskilt belyses faktorer som påverkar huruvida etableringsprocessen är framgångsrik och den tid processen tar i anspråk. Den primära forskningsfrågan är således vilka faktorer som avgör hur lång tid ett etableringsprojekt tar. Tanken är att rapporten skall vara till hjälp för de aktörer som vill utveckla kombiterminaler. Utifrån teori om rationella val och tre fallstudier - Falköping, Jönköping och Nässjö – analyseras vilka faktorer som avgör hur lång tid en etableringsprocess tar i anspråk. De faktorer som identifierats är Lönsamhet, Finansiärer, Politisk entreprenör, Lokalisering Stor lokal transportköpare samt Banverket. Den första faktorn får nog bedömas som starkare än de andra. Det är förstås generellt så att investeringar som förväntas vara mycket lönsamma är enklare att driva igenom en beslutsprocess. Utifrån denna studie framgår det att en engagerad politisk entreprenör är vital för att etableringsprocessen skall framskrida, men de övriga faktorerna är svårare att rangordna.
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- Kehoe, James, et al.
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Assessment of the impact of the application of new sulphur limits to the Mediterranean and the Atlantic European Seas
- 2010
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt)abstract
- The impact of introducing stricter sulphur limits in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic was modelled using 12 priority corridors operating on these seas. Due to the topography of the Mediterranean coastline and the selection of studied routes, short sea shipping (SSS) was found to be dominant, holding approximately 95% of the market share on the selected routes. This share is an over estimation as rail was not included in this study. The introduction of stricter sulphur limits in 2015 & 2020 will increase SSS costs and hence reduce the SSS market share.
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- Woxenius, Johan, 1967-
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Freight transport detours
- 2010
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Ingår i: The 12th World Conference on Transport Research, Lisbon, 11-15 July 2010.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt)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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Ingår i: Logistics Research Network Annual Conference (LRN), Harrogate, 8-10 September.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt)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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- Woxenius, Johan, 1967-, et al.
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Intermodal Road-Rail Transport in the European Union
- 2008
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Ingår i: The future of intermodal freight transport : operations, design and policy / edited by Rob Konings, Hugo Priemus and Peter Nijkamp. - Cheltenham : Edward Elgar. - 978-1-84542-238-7 ; s. 13-33
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