1995/09/01 by Rosanna E. Russo, Russo, Rosanna E., Manfréd M. Fischer +1
Engineering · Social Sciences · #Urban and Freight Transport Logistics #transportation and logistics systems #Maritime Ports and Logistics
paper · pdf · doi:10.57938/c0aa22f0-ad67-4df9-a3a4-f9cfcf6ff402
Trans-Alpine freight transport suffers because of severe road congestion due to <br/>under-capacity of roads and causes considerable environmental damages in the <br/>transit countries, particularly in Austria and Switzerland, but also in Italy. The <br/>obvious strategy of shifting trans-Alpine flows from road to rail is hampered by <br/>several factors such as Jack of coordination among the various national railway <br/>companies, lack of provision of competitive services (e.g., blocktrains, etc.), and <br/>insufficient efforts to increase and promote combined transport. One of the key <br/>problems is the disintegrated policy approach which does not conceive road and rail <br/>as complementary modes of transport, but still as competitive ones. Using the five <br/>dimensions - hardware, software, orgware (institutions), tinware, and the <br/>environment - as a checklist the current paper makes a modest attempt to identify <br/>areas of major concern for road and rail. The paper looks more specifically at the <br/>case of combined road/rail freight transport as part of a single, virtual mobility <br/>network for trans-Alpine freight transport. (authors' abstract)