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Title:

Twin Hub Network: an Innovative Concept to Boost Competitiveness of Intermodal Rail Transport to the Hinterland

Accession Number:

01476595

Record Type:

Component

Availability:

Transportation Research Board Business Office

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Abstract:

This paper presents the concept and first results of a new research and development project called "Intermodal rail freight Twin hub Northwest-Europe" (= Twin hub network). The main idea of this concept is to bundle the container hinterland transport flows of the seaports of Rotterdam and Antwerp (and smaller seaports) in order to increase the size of trainloads, the service frequency and/or the network connectivity, and hence to improve the cost performance and quality of rail hinterland transport. The bundling takes place in a specific hub-and-spoke service network in which the seaports can mutually boost their performance of rail hinterland transport and can enlarge their hinterland service area by rail. The first results with regard to the identification of promising Twin hub networks demonstrate the conceptual logic: new rail services to the hinterland can be developed by this bundling whereas otherwise the trainloads to/from hinterland regions would be too little to start up a service.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee AT045(1) AT045 Paper Review Subcommittee.

Monograph Accession #:

01470560

Report/Paper Numbers:

13-1352

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Kreutzberger, Ekki
Konings, Rob

Pagination:

23p

Publication Date:

2013

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 92nd Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2013-1-13 to 2013-1-17
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

Figures; Maps; References; Tables

Uncontrolled Terms:

Bundling; Hinterlands

Subject Areas:

Freight Transportation; Planning and Forecasting; Railroads; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2013 Paper #13-1352

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Feb 5 2013 12:21PM