Network-Level Analysis of the Market and Performance of Intermodal Freight Transport

Hamid Saeedi

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Network-Level Analysis of the Market and Performance of Intermodal Freight Transport

Hamid Saeedi

Transport and Planning

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Road transport has been the dominant modality for hinterland freight transport in the last two decades. This has resulted in congestion, air pollution and other external effects such as noise nuisance. Intermodal Freight Transport (IFT) as an alternative to road transport has been stimulated by the European Commission. In particular, there is a target of shifting more than 50% of freight being transported further than 300 km by road to IFT by 2050. However, despite all efforts, and running different programs, the market share of IFT is still quite limited. Assuming that having a competitive market, and improving the performance of the IFT service will result in higher market share for IFT service, this thesis analyzes the market structure and the performance of the IFT service at the network-level.

Original language	English
Awarding Institution	Delft University of Technology
Supervisors/Advisors	Zuidwijk, Rob, Supervisor Wiegmans, Bart, Advisor
Award date	15 Mar 2018
Publisher	TRAIL Research School
Print ISBNs	978-90-5584-233-9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4233/uuid:265ecd81-4b57-4697-bd0d-60a7ec35aa8a
Publication status	Published - 2018

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TRAIL Thesis Series no. T2018/1, the Netherlands Research School TRAIL

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