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Cyber–Physical Control of Road Freight Transport [PDF]

Proceedings of the IEEE, 2016
Freight transportation is of outmost importance for our society and is continuously increasing. At the same time, transporting goods on roads accounts for about 26% of all energy consumption and 18% of all greenhouse gas emissions in the European Union.
Assad Alam, Jonas Mårtensson, Kuo-Yun Liang, Bart Besselink, Karl Henrik Johansson, Sebastian van de Hoef, Valerio Turri   +6 more
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Exploring the Sustainable Effects of Urban-Port Road System Reconstruction

Energies, 2021
The aim of the research is to identify and quantify the direct sustainable effects resulting from the improved road infrastructure in the local urban-port transport system. This case study considers the city port of Szczecin (Poland).
Dariusz Bernacki, Christian Lis
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Investigating factors affecting road freight overloading through the integrated use of BLR and CART: a case study in China

Transport, 2020
Overloading of road freight vehicles accelerates road damage, creates unfair competition in the transport market, and increases safety risk. There is a dearth of research on the mining of data of highway Freight Weight (FW), and this paper therefore aims
Yikai Chen, Kai Wang, Yu Zhang, Renjia Luo, Shujun Yu, Qin Shi, Wenting Hu   +6 more
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How to make modal shift from road to rail possible in the European transport market, as aspired to in the EU Transport White Paper 2011 [PDF]

, 2016
The total demand for freight transport in Europe has increased significantly in recent decades, but most of it has been handled by road transport. To fulfil the modal shift targets set in the EU White Paper 2011, it will be necessary to double rail’s ...
Islam, Dewan Md Zahurul, Nelldal, Bo Lennart, RICCI, Stefano   +2 more
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The Interdependence of Institutional Framework and Business Success of Internationally Oriented Croatian Road Freight Transporters

Tehnički Vjesnik, 2020
The road freight industry is a structurally competitive sector which is oriented towards distribution, logistics and basic physical transport. Road freight transport represents the leading transport branch in the European Union, and the same situation is
Dora Naletina, Kristina Petljak, Ivana Štulec   +2 more
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A comparative analysis of road and rail performance in freight transport: an example from Nigeria

Urban, Planning and Transport Research, 2022
The research examines the implication of Nigeria’s lopsided land transport structure for performance and efficiency in the freight transport sector using the Lagos–Kano corridor as a case study.
Adebukola Daramola
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London 2012: changing delivery patterns in response to the impact of the Games on traffic flows [PDF]

, 2014
The paper addresses road freight transport operations during the London Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2012. It presents work carried out prior to the Games to understand pre-Games patterns of freight deliveries in London (for both light and heavy goods
Alleyne R., BBC, Bovy M., Bovy M., Bovy M., Central London Freight Quality Partnership, Chapman N., Department for Transport, Department for Transport, Department for Transport, Department for Transport, Frantzeskakis J., Freight Transport Association, Freight Transport Association, Hughes D., London Assembly, London Chamber of Commerce, London Travel Watch, Mayor of London, Office for National Statistics, Office for National Statistics, Olympic Delivery Authority, Olympic Delivery Authority, Smithers R., Transport for London, Transport for London, Transport for London, Transport for London, Transport for London, Visa Europe   +29 more
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A demand model for international freight transport by road [PDF]

European Transport Research Review, 2008
Abstract This paper presents a system of models for the estimation of road international (import/export) freight flows by using a partial share approach. It allows to simulate generation (for export), attraction (for import) and distribution steps for the estimation of freight flows in quantities (commodity approach), from which the ...
NUZZOLO, AGOSTINO, CRISALLI, UMBERTO, COMI, ANTONIO   +2 more
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Green Freight Movement: The Dilemma of the Shifting of Road Freight to Alternatives

Transportation Research Procedia, 2017
Abstract: Today, there is a real issue of an alternative to road freight transport. This paper presents experience from Egypt during which time a mathematical procedure was developed to analyze the impact of shifting cargo movement from the road transport sector to the alternatives of water and rail. Currently in Egypt more than 90% of national cargo
Leonard Johnstone, Vatanavongs Ratanavaraha   +1 more
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Uniform Market Conditions in Road Freight Transport [PDF]

LOGI - Scientific Journal on Transport and Logistics, 2018
Abstract International road transport is a specific service within the frame of services provided in the European Union. It is because the conditions of being active on the market are influenced by the states where businessmen operate, but services can be provided throughout the whole year in other member states of the European Union ...
Miloš Poliak, Salvador Hernandez, Patrícia Šimurková   +2 more
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