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David S. Pellicer and Emilio Larrodé
This paper shows the development of a numerical analysis model, which enables the calculation of the cargo transport capacity of a vehicle that circulates through a vacuum tube at high speed, whose effectiveness in transport is analyzed. The simulated tr...
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Diogo da Fonseca-Soares, Sayonara Andrade Eliziário, Josicleda Domiciano Galvincio and Angel Fermin Ramos-Ridao
Rail transportation plays a crucial role in reducing carbon emissions from the transportation system, making a significant contribution to environmental impact mitigation due to the efficiency of passenger and freight rail transportation. Accurate assess...
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Hongzan Jiao, Faxing Yang, Shasha Xu and Shibiao Huang
Urban logistics is important to a city?s sustainable growth and development. With the increase in population and the economic growth in urban areas, the issue of congestion and the negative influence of transport of goods on people and the environment is...
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Clara Borén, Manel Grifoll and Marcella Castells-Sanabra
Maritime transportation is the prevalent mode of transport for overseas freight, and it is frequently recognised as a relatively environmentally sustainable means of transport. However, shipping is still a substantial source of greenhouse gas emissions. ...
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Eduardo Ramos Velasco, Nicoletta González-Cancelas, Alberto Camarero Orive and David Díaz-Gutiérrez
Modern ports tend to focus on freight transport and cruise traffic. The fishing sector is often the forgotten sector in terms of sustainability and port planning, despite the fact that fishing is a sector of great importance and interest; though it is cu...
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Mónica M. Ramalho and Tiago A. Santos
This paper discusses the most attractive emission compliance options (emission abatement technologies and cleaner fuels) in intermodal transport chains that include short sea shipping. Most studies on emissions-based transport chain comparisons have esti...
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Mónica M. Ramalho and Tiago A. Santos
This paper applies a methodology for computing external costs in an intermodal transport network that includes short sea shipping to explore the impact of external costs in its competitiveness. The network, which includes roads, freight railways, maritim...
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Paulo Nocera Alves Junior, Isotilia Costa Melo, José Eduardo Holler Branco, Daniela Bacchi Bartholomeu and José Vicente Caixeta-Filho
The development of Green Transport Corridors (GTCs) is an important strategy to help a region achieve more sustainable solutions. When such GTCs are implemented, multimodal supply chains and environmentally-friendly alternatives for freight transportatio...
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Gerben Peeters, Muhammad Raheel Afzal, Maarten Vanierschot, René Boonen and Peter Slaets
The European Watertruck+
Watertruck
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project introduced a new fleet of self-propelled inland cargo barges to the European waters, in order to induce more sustainable freight transport in the European hinterland. An augmentation of the automation level ...
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Arkadiusz Drewnowski
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The railway sidings handled by the freight transport are primordial operating points in relation to the freight transport as a whole. Every active railway siding constitute a natural source for creation of a flow of loaded wagons where, in consequence, t...
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