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The role of short sea shipping and European rail corridors in intermodal freight transportation
| Resumo: | This dissertation explores the possibility of combining short sea shipping with European Union rail corridors and inland waterways to carry freight towards regions located away from the coastline. The contributions of this dissertation is the expansion of a network model and the introduction of new transport chains in new areas not cov-ered before. A review of intermodal transport policies in the European Union and of transport cost and transit time models in intermodal transport chains is carried out. A network-based model of intermodal transport chains in the Atlantic façade of Europe is developed, including different combinations of modes of transportation (road, short sea shipping, rail and inland waterways). These models are applied to the quantification of total transport cost, transit time and a combination of both using value of time for creating a generalized transportation cost. Results are presented for transport chains from Porto and Bragança to 75 NUTS 2 regions (Nomenclature of ter-ritorial units for statistics) in northern Europe. The regions for which the different in-termodal combinations are more competitive are identified. Parametric variations of critical transport parameters are carried out, allowing the identification of changes in the scope of regions for which the different intermodal combinations are more com-petitive. The results obtained by the model identify the competitiveness of intermodal so-lutions using short sea shipping rail and inland waterways in the transport of freight. Intermodal solutions prove to be slow when comparing with road haulage, which proves to be cost competitive for certain regions. |
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| Autores principais: | Nobre, Miguel Simões Ferreira |
| Assunto: | Short sea shipping Rail Inland waterways Road haulage Intermodal transportation Network based model |
| Ano: | 2021 |
| País: | Portugal |
| Tipo de documento: | dissertação de mestrado |
| Tipo de acesso: | acesso aberto |
| Instituição associada: | Universidade Nova de Lisboa |
| Idioma: | inglês |
| Origem: | Repositório Institucional da UNL |
| Resumo: | This dissertation explores the possibility of combining short sea shipping with European Union rail corridors and inland waterways to carry freight towards regions located away from the coastline. The contributions of this dissertation is the expansion of a network model and the introduction of new transport chains in new areas not cov-ered before. A review of intermodal transport policies in the European Union and of transport cost and transit time models in intermodal transport chains is carried out. A network-based model of intermodal transport chains in the Atlantic façade of Europe is developed, including different combinations of modes of transportation (road, short sea shipping, rail and inland waterways). These models are applied to the quantification of total transport cost, transit time and a combination of both using value of time for creating a generalized transportation cost. Results are presented for transport chains from Porto and Bragança to 75 NUTS 2 regions (Nomenclature of ter-ritorial units for statistics) in northern Europe. The regions for which the different in-termodal combinations are more competitive are identified. Parametric variations of critical transport parameters are carried out, allowing the identification of changes in the scope of regions for which the different intermodal combinations are more com-petitive. The results obtained by the model identify the competitiveness of intermodal so-lutions using short sea shipping rail and inland waterways in the transport of freight. Intermodal solutions prove to be slow when comparing with road haulage, which proves to be cost competitive for certain regions. |
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