Facing the Challenge
Author | : National Research Council (U.S.). Transportation Research Board |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Intermodal goods movement |
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Author | : National Research Council (U.S.). Transportation Research Board |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Intermodal goods movement |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Transportation Research Board |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 142 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : |
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Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Terminals (Transportation) |
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The purpose of this conference was to focus attention on the most costly element of intermodal service, the terminal. In spite of all the recent activity in terminal construction, expansion and rehabilitation, the challenge left is in the development of even more efficient, high-productivity intermodal systems that generate a lower net unit cost per container or trailer. The topics covered are: Surface treatment; Current facility design and construction projects; intermodal equipment, and Operations and process control systems.
Author | : Bruno Vallespir |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 681 |
Release | : 2010-10-15 |
Genre | : Computers |
ISBN | : 3642163572 |
The present economic and social environment has given rise to new situations within which companies must operate. As a first example, the globalization of the economy and the need for performance has led companies to outsource and then to operate inside networks of enterprises such as supply chains or virtual enterprises. A second instance is related to environmental issues. The statement about the impact of ind- trial activities on the environment has led companies to revise processes, to save - ergy, to optimize transportation.... A last example relates to knowledge. Knowledge is considered today to be one of the main assets of a company. How to capitalize, to manage, to reuse it for the benefit of the company is an important current issue. The three examples above have no direct links. However, each of them constitutes a challenge that companies have to face today. This book brings together the opinions of several leading researchers from all around the world. Together they try to develop new approaches and find answers to those challenges. Through the individual ch- ters of this book, the authors present their understanding of the different challenges, the concepts on which they are working, the approaches they are developing and the tools they propose. The book is composed of six parts; each one focuses on a specific theme and is subdivided into subtopics.
Author | : Marc Levinson |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 541 |
Release | : 2016-04-05 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1400880750 |
In April 1956, a refitted oil tanker carried fifty-eight shipping containers from Newark to Houston. From that modest beginning, container shipping developed into a huge industry that made the boom in global trade possible. The Box tells the dramatic story of the container's creation, the decade of struggle before it was widely adopted, and the sweeping economic consequences of the sharp fall in transportation costs that containerization brought about. But the container didn't just happen. Its adoption required huge sums of money, both from private investors and from ports that aspired to be on the leading edge of a new technology. It required years of high-stakes bargaining with two of the titans of organized labor, Harry Bridges and Teddy Gleason, as well as delicate negotiations on standards that made it possible for almost any container to travel on any truck or train or ship. Ultimately, it took McLean's success in supplying U.S. forces in Vietnam to persuade the world of the container's potential. Drawing on previously neglected sources, economist Marc Levinson shows how the container transformed economic geography, devastating traditional ports such as New York and London and fueling the growth of previously obscure ones, such as Oakland. By making shipping so cheap that industry could locate factories far from its customers, the container paved the way for Asia to become the world's workshop and brought consumers a previously unimaginable variety of low-cost products from around the globe. Published in hardcover on the fiftieth anniversary of the first container voyage, this is the first comprehensive history of the shipping container. Now with a new chapter, The Box tells the dramatic story of how the drive and imagination of an iconoclastic entrepreneur turned containerization from an impractical idea into a phenomenon that transformed economic geography, slashed transportation costs, and made the boom in global trade possible.
Author | : Matthew Heins |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 2016-01-29 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1317282361 |
This book gives an account of how the U.S. freight transportation system has been impacted and “globalized,” since the 1950s, by the presence of the shipping container. A globally standardized object, the container carries cargo moving in international trade, and it utilizes and fits within the existing transportation infrastructures of shipping, trucking and railroads. In this way it binds them together into a nearly seamless worldwide logistics network. This process occurs not only in ocean shipping and at ports, but also deep within national territories. In its dependence on existing infrastructural systems, though, the network of container movement as it pervades domestic space is shaped by the history and geography of the nation-state. This global network is not invariably imposed in a top-down manner—to a large degree, it is cobbled together out of national, regional and local systems. Heins describes this in the American context, examining the freight transportation infrastructures of railroads, trucking and inland waterways, and also the terminals where containers are transferred between train and truck. The book provides a detailed historical narrative, and is also theoretically informed by the contemporary literature on infrastructure and globalization.
Author | : National Research Council (U.S.). Highway Research Information Service |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 518 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Highway engineering |
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Author | : Jason Monios |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 245 |
Release | : 2016-05-23 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 131711583X |
While the operational realities of intermodal transport are relatively well known, the institutional challenges are less well understood. This book provides an overview of intermodal transport and logistics including the policy background, emerging industry trends and academic approaches. Establishing the three key features of intermodal transport geography as intermodal terminals, inland logistics and hinterland corridors, Jason Monios takes an institutional approach to understanding the difficulties of successful intermodal transport and logistics. Key areas of investigation include the policy and planning background, the roles of public and private stakeholders and the identification of emerging strategy conflicts. Substantial empirical content situates the theoretical and practical issues in real-world examples via three detailed case study chapters (covering the USA, UK and Europe), making the book useful to students as well as practitioners desiring an understanding of how intermodal transport and logistics work in practice. The identified challenges to intermodal transport and logistics are used to demonstrate how competing port and inland strategies can inhibit the necessary processes of integration required to underpin successful intermodal transport. The book concludes with a look at the future of institutional adaptation that may enhance the capacity of freight actors to engage with intermodal transport developments.
Author | : Roy Thomas |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 2017-07-12 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1351876589 |
Freight transport is essential to modern urban civilization. No urban area could exist without a reliable freight transport system. Although the private sector is responsible for much of this system, the public sector has a vital role to play in the provision of infrastructure and the establishment of a social and legal framework within which transport can occur. For these reasons, goods movement deserves and is increasingly receiving, explicit consideration in urban transport policy and planning. Many cities around the world have conducted studies aimed at resolving urban goods movement problems and a considerable, if disparate, body of research results are available. This book brings together much of this knowledge and experience in a comprehensive source of information on urban freight, particularly from a public policy or planning viewpoint. It provides both a conceptual basis for urban goods movement analysis and detailed, practical guidelines which may be used directly by those responsible for urban freight policy and planning. The author has worked for over twenty years in this field and he draws upon his experience in Australia, the United States, Great Britain, Canada and The Philippines to produce a book which is international in scope and perspective. The book is written for practising professionals, such as engineers, economists and planners, working in local government, urban transport planning agencies, highway authorities, consultancies, or research institutes; it is also relevant to graduate courses in transport planning, traffic engineering or urban policy. It is of interest to all who have a concern for contemporary issues in urban development.
Author | : National Research Council (U.S.). Transportation Research Board |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 94 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Transportation |
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