This paper presents findings from a project investigating innovative freight solutions in a multi-stakeholder setting in Rome's limited traffic zone focussing on local policy-makers, freight carries and retailers.
American rail carriers, in order to provide intermodal freight solutions to customers.
The Intermodal segment utilizes arrangements with most major North American rail carriers, in order to provide intermodal freight solutions to customers.
So we give customers a middle ground, a multimodal freight option between standard air freight and ocean," said Michael White of UPS, who uses these China-Europe rail lines as part of their multimodal freight solutions.
Mixed passenger and freight solutions become mainstream in order to compensate the smaller volumes of transported goods, fully utilising the existing infrastructure.
The research explored 'existing' and 'future' rail freight solutions for LDHV cargo transport by rail, using a GAP analysis methodology, implemented using an online survey questionnaire, completed by 24 participants.
By extending the methodologies presented above to the field of rail freight transport, the current research applies a GAP (difference between 'existing' and desired 'future' scenarios) analysis, using an online survey, that ultimately aims to identify the gap between the market requirements for the transportation of LDHV goods and existing rail freight solutions.
Moreover, MAMCA is one of the main evaluation tools in the EU project STRAIGHTSOL (Strategies and measures for smarter urban freight solutions) of the 7th Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development (FP7 2007–13) and also in NISTO (New Integrated Smart Transport Options) project, in the framework of INTERREG North-West Europe Programme [53].
Thus, information on how fluid an intermodal freight transport solution is, becomes critical to private decision makers for knowing if supply chains are achieving their goals.
