A Review of Intermodal Rail Freight Bundling Operations

2015 ◽  
pp. 451-463 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qu Hu ◽  
Francesco Corman ◽  
Gabriel Lodewijks
Keyword(s):  
Rail Freight

Reducing CO2 emissions through pricing, planning, and subsidizing rail freight

2020 ◽  
Vol 87 ◽  
pp. 102483
Author(s):  
Lin Li ◽  
Xiaoqiang Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Co2 Emissions ◽  
Rail Freight

Research on the Freight Station Layout

2013 ◽  
Vol 380-384 ◽  
pp. 4506-4510
Author(s):  
Miao Du ◽  
Yong Qin ◽  
Zi Yang Wang ◽  
Zhong Xin Zhao ◽  
Hong Fei Yu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Integer Programming ◽  
Mixed Integer Programming ◽  
Programming Model ◽  
Rapid Expansion ◽  
Mixed Integer ◽  
Railway Stations ◽  
Integer Programming Model ◽  
Rail Freight ◽  
Mixed Integer Programming Model ◽  
Train Operation

At present, there are many problems existing in railway stations, such as excessive numbers and over-crowded layout, which seriously affect the scale benefit generation and rapid expansion of rail freight capacity. Aimed at these problems, a Mixed Integer programming model is proposed. Taking Lanzhou train operation depot for example, applying lingo software, the layout of freight station is obtained.

Exploring Flow System Change: U.S. Rail Freight Flows, 1972–1981

1985 ◽  
Vol 75 (4) ◽  
pp. 539-551 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel C. Knudsen
Keyword(s):  
Flow System ◽  
System Change ◽  
Rail Freight

Emissions and Air Quality Impacts of Truck-to-Rail Freight Modal Shifts in the Midwestern United States

2013 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 446-454 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erica Bickford ◽  
Tracey Holloway ◽  
Alexandra Karambelas ◽  
Matt Johnston ◽  
Teresa Adams ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Air Quality ◽  
Midwestern United States ◽  
Rail Freight

Rail Freight Project Finance

1999 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 15-22
Author(s):  
Henry Posner
Keyword(s):  
Project Finance ◽  
Rail Freight

A decentralised multi-agent system for rail freight traffic management

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allan M. C. Bretas ◽  
Alexandre Mendes ◽  
Martin Jackson ◽  
Riley Clement ◽  
Claudio Sanhueza ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Traffic Management ◽  
Multi Agent System ◽  
Agent System ◽  
Rail Freight ◽  
Freight Traffic ◽  
Multi Agent

LNG Use in Freight Rail Industry as an Economic and Environmental Driver: A Technical, Operational and Economic Assessment

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fábio C. Barbosa
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Natural Gas ◽  
Alternative Fuels ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Critical Evaluation ◽  
Economic Assessment ◽  
Environmental Benefits ◽  
Rail Freight ◽  
Emission Standards ◽  
Rail Industry

Freight rail carriers have been continuously challenged to reduce costs and comply with increasingly stringent environmental standards, into a continuously competing and environmentally driven industry. In this context, current availability and relative abundance of clean and low cost non conventional gas reserves have aroused a comprehensive reevaluation of rail industry into fuel option, especially where freight rail are strongly diesel based. Countries in which rail sector is required to play an important role in transport matrix, where fuel expenditures currently accounts for a significant share of operational costs, like Australia, Brazil, United States and other continental countries, can be seen as strong candidates to adopt fuel alternatives to diesel fueled freight railways. Moreover, from an environmental perspective, the use of alternative fuels (like natural gas) for locomotive traction may allow rail freight carriers to comply with emission standards into a less technologically complex and costly way. In this context, liquefied natural gas (LNG) fueled freight locomotives are seen as a strong potential near-term driver for natural gas use in rail sector, with its intrinsic cost and environmental benefits and with the potential to revolutionize rail industry much like the transition from steam to diesel experienced into the fifties, as well as the more recent advent of use of alternating current diesel-electric locomotives. LNG rail fueled approach has been focused on both retrofitting existing locomotive diesel engines, as well as on original manufactured engines. Given the lower polluting potential of natural gas heavy engines, when compared to diesel counterparts, LNG locomotives can be used to comply with increasingly restrictive Particulate Matter (PM) and Nitrogen Oxides (NOx) emission standards with less technological complexity (engine design and aftertreatment hardware) and their intrinsic lower associated costs. Prior to commercial operation of LNG locomotives, there are some technical, operational and economic hurdles that need to be addressed, i.e. : i) locomotive engine and fuel tender car technological maturity and reliability improvement; ii) regulation improvement, basically focused on operational safety and interchange operations; iii) current and long term diesel - gas price differential, a decisive driver, and, finally, iv) LNG infrastructure requirements (fueling facilities, locomotives and tender car specifications). This work involved an extensive research into already published works to present an overview of LNG use in freight rail industry into a technical, operational and economical perspective, followed by a critical evaluation of its potential into some relevant freight rail markets, such as United States, Brazil and Australia, as well as some European non electrified rail freight lines.

GHG-emission models for assessing the eco-friendliness of road and rail freight transports

2015 ◽  
Vol 73 ◽  
pp. 13-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Kirschstein ◽  
Frank Meisel
Keyword(s):  
Ghg Emission ◽  
Rail Freight ◽  
Emission Models
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