Abstract
Present performance of railway transport sector is determined by two groups of factors. The first one relates to the changes of external economic environment of railway performance, while the second one deals with the internal changes in the railway transport sector. These factors determine priority directions of railway transport sector development. A good example of such development is implementation of intermodal services, which in turn foresee concept of integration of various logistics service providers. In this paper assumption is made, that implementation of intermodal services as well as integration of various logistics services providers can not be reached without proper nodes on the multimodal transport networks. Therefore definition, urge and some key functions of intermodal terminal are discussed. Later theoretical model of such terminal performance is presented. The paper ends with conclusions about the meaning of intermodal terminal to the increase of quality level of railway transport sector performance.
Highlights
Present peculiarity of railway sector performance is determined by two groups of factors
A good example of such technology could be intermodal transportation where main leg is done by the railway transport [3, 4]
Performance of railway transport sector is determined by factors related to the changes of external economic environment of railway performance and dealing with the internal changes in the railway transport sector
Summary
Present peculiarity of railway sector performance is determined by two groups of factors. That in most cases railway transport leg is just a part of total transport chain, the main feature of which is variety of different logistics actors making more or less input into assurance of services level required by the costumers. It follows that all these actors have the same goal maintenance of the appropriate service level. A good example of such technology could be intermodal transportation where main leg is done by the railway transport [3, 4] Such a decision requires some appropriate places (nodes) in the network where connection between separate transport modes can be assured.
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