Intermodal and international freight network modeling

Intermodal and international freight network modeling

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Article ID: iaor20012635
Country: United Kingdom
Volume: 8C
Issue: 1/6
Start Page Number: 147
End Page Number: 166
Publication Date: Feb 2000
Journal: Transportation Research. Part C, Emerging Technologies
Authors: ,
Keywords: transportation: road
Abstract:

The authors describe the development and application of a single, integrated digital representation of a multimodal and transcontinental freight transportation network. The network was constructed to support the simulation of some five million origin to destination freight shipments reported as part of the 1997 United States Commodity Flow Survey. The paper focuses on the routing of the tens of thousands of intermodal freight movements reported in this survey. Routings involve different combinations of truck, rail and water transportation. Geographic information systems (GIS) technology was invaluable in the cost-effective construction and maintenance of this network and in the subsequent validation of mode sequences and route selections. However, computationally efficient routing of intermodal freight shipments was found to be most efficiently accomplished outside the GIS. Selection of appropriate intermodal routes required procedures for linking freight origins and destinations to the transportation network, procedures for modeling intermodal terminal transfers and inter-carrier interlining practices, and a procedure for generating multimodal impedance functions to reflect the relative costs of alternative, survey reported mode sequences.

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