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A Review of Intermodal Rail Freight Bundling Operations

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Computational Logistics (ICCL 2015)

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Bundling freight flows are significant important in intermodal transport, as all stakeholders involved, e.g. infrastructure owners and transport providers have to find the best solution to meet the transport demand with reasonable cost. Therefore, consolidation and spilt of the freight are inevitable during the transport. As a result, extensive operations must be performed to ensure the exchange between freight flows. The aim of this paper is to give an integrated perspective of the railway intermodal bundling operations. Key operations in bundling rail freight are addressed and discussed, literature in relevant area are classified according to the characteristic of operation. Finally, current trends and limitation in these topics are discussed.

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    Qu Hu, Francesco Corman & Gabriel Lodewijks

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Hu, Q., Corman, F., Lodewijks, G. (2015). A Review of Intermodal Rail Freight Bundling Operations. In: Corman, F., Voß, S., Negenborn, R. (eds) Computational Logistics. ICCL 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9335. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24264-4_31

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