Article ID: | iaor20122935 |
Volume: | 17 |
Issue: | 4 |
Start Page Number: | 287 |
End Page Number: | 292 |
Publication Date: | Jun 2012 |
Journal: | Transportation Research Part D |
Authors: | Shiau Tzay-An, Chuang Yi-Ru |
Keywords: | economics, location |
We use social‐eco‐efficient analysis in the form of SEEbalance to evaluate gravel transport sustainability for trucking and two kinds of intermodal transportation. Results show that switching from trucks to intermodal transportation can improve the sustainability of gravel transportation in the northeast corridor of Taiwan. Sensitivity analysis shows that rail combined with truck intermodal transportation has competitive advantage despite the terminal’s location factor.