Multimodal freight transportation planning: A literature review

By Maryam SteadieSeifi, N. Dellaert, Wim P. M. Nuijten, Tom Van Woensel, Rasa Raoufi. European Journal of Operational Research, 2014

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Multimodal transportation offers an advanced platform for more efficient, reliable, flexible, and sustainable freight transportation. Planning such a complicated system provides interesting areas in Operations Research. This paper presents a structured overview of the multimodal transportation literature from 2005 onward. We focus on the traditional strategic, tactical, and operational levels of planning, where we present the relevant models and their developed solution techniques. We conclude our review paper with an outlook to future research directions.

Subfields: Building and Construction, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering

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Citations in the corpus

• Cost, carbon emissions and modal shift in intermodal network design decisions (2015, background): “We refer to Bontekoning et al. (2004) for a review on the early development of the research on intermodal freight transportation and to Caris et al. (2013) and SteadieSeifi et al. (2014) for recent reviews.”
• ICT in multimodal transport and technological trends: unleashing potential for the future (2015, background): “a TEU container), co-modal adds the efficient use of different modes (resource utilisation) and synchromodal emphasises the real-time aspect of the transport (SteadieSeifi et al. 2014; UN/ECE 2001).”
• Decarbonizing intraregional freight systems with a focus on modal shift (2018, background): “refers to a situation where modal combinations and operational schedules can be changed after the shipment is on the way, in response to new information [85, 136, 137, 141, 142].”
• Sustainable vehicles-based alternatives in last mile distribution of urban freight transport: A Systematic literature review (2017, background): “Consequently, the quest for solutions through greater cooperation and integration of their activities is underway by adopting new technologies and using resources efficiently [8].”