Feeder Transport Research Articles

ATTRACTION AREA DIVISION AND FREIGHT FLOW ORGANIZATION OPTIMIZATION OF INLAND RAILWAY CONTAINER TERMINAL

The attraction area division is the foundation of distribution and organization of freight flow among railway stations. The development of railway container terminal, large railway freight distribution center, is closely related to logistics planning and economy development of local city. In this study, we divide freight flow attraction area of inland railway container terminal by using gravity model, break-point model and weighted-Voronoi-diagram with SPSS and ArcGIS. And then under the target of minimal cost and time window limitations, we develop 0–1 integer programming model for freight flow organization optimization between inland terminal and its attraction area. Finally, this paper takes railway container terminal in Harbin as an example to test model feasibility under different speeds from different transportation modes. The results show that it is necessary to divide attraction area when choosing reasonable transportation mode from feeder nodes to railway container terminal. The improvement of feeder transportation speed is an effective method to improve freight volume, increase railway revenue and realize sustainable development of China Railway (CR) Express.

The capacitated directed cycle hub location and routing problem under congestion

This paper deals with hub-and-spoke network design in the liner shipping sector. It introduces a capacitated directed cycle hub location and cargo routing problem under congestion. The problem involves four decisions: location of hub ports; allocation of non-hub ports to hub ports; construction of a directed cyclic route at the hub port network level; and the routing of cargo between all origin-destination demand pairs in the network. The objective is to minimize the cost which includes fixed hub opening, feeder collection and distribution, inter-hub transportation, cargo handling, and non-linear hub port congestion costs. We present a mixed integer linear programming model in which the non-linear congestion costs at the hub ports are approximated through a (semi-continuous) piecewise linear function and use this model to calculate lower bounds on the objective function. We also develop a Tabu Search algorithm, which employs a hierarchical approach for the different decisions in the hub-and-spoke network design problem, with customized procedures for the generation of the initial solution and the selection of the search moves. The neighborhood search is diversified by randomly changing the locations of hubs based on their location frequency history in previous solutions. Computational experiments, using instances from the literature and problems based on real-world data, demonstrate that the algorithm finds high quality solutions in a reasonable time. The experiments show that the network design can be highly influenced by scale economies in mainline vs. feeder transportation costs, the port locations and hinterland flows, and congestion at the hub ports.

Assessing the Relationship between Access Travel Time Estimation and the Accessibility to High Speed Railway Station by Different Travel Modes

This paper aims to fill the research gap of the relationship between the access travel time (ATT) estimation and the accessibility to high speed railway (HSR) station. A regression analysis was developed on the basis of risk-return model to analyze the access travel time estimation error (ATTEE). The data sources were 1595 valid interview survey data at Beijing South Railway Station (BSRS), China in October 2016. The factors and scenarios included travel mode, departure time, and travel date, etc. The coefficients of ATT estimation were obtained by different travel modes. The results showed that the expected access travel time (EATT) has positive linear correlation with the actual access travel time (AATT). Accessibility was calculated by the ratio of AATT to EATT. The accessibility coefficients ranged from 0.89 to 1.38 in different travel modes, departure time, and travel dates. A smaller coefficient indicates better travel time reliability and accessibility. This study not only provides a useful tool to estimate the travel time budget required for access to HSR station, but also establishes a connection with the accessibility and ATTEE. It offers an opportunity to estimate ATT to HSR stations by different modes of transport, which can help to better understand how the accessibility of the feeder transport changes at different time periods.

Short Sea Shipping on the West Coast of Korea: Keys to Activating the Shipping Industry in Preparation for Korea Unification Era

This study aims to analyze information on vessel traffic between the two Koreas with a probability distribution for each route/vessel type. The study will then conduct an estimate for maritime transport patterns of inter-Korean trade in the future. To analyze the flow of inter-Korean coastal shipping, this study conducted visualization analysis of shipping status between North and South Korea by year, ship type, and port using navigation data of three years from Port Logistics Information System (Port-MIS) sources during 2006 to 2008, which saw the most active exchanges between the two governments. Also, this study analyzes shipping status between the two governments as a probability distribution for each port and provides the prospects for future maritime transport for inter-Korean trade by means of Bayesian Networks and simulation. The results of the analysis are as follows: i) when North-South routes are reopened, the import volume for sand from North Korea will be increased; ii) investment in the modernization of ports in North Korea is required so that shipping companies can generate profit through economies of scale; iii) the number of the operating vessels including container ships between the two governments is expected to increase like when the tensions and conflict on the Korean Peninsula was release, especially between Busan port in South Korea and Nampo port in North Korea; and iv) among container ships, transshipment containers imported and exported through Busan Port will be shipped to North Korea by feeder transportation.

Short Sea Shipping on the West Coast of Korea: Keys to Activating the Shipping Industry in Preparation for Korea Unification Era

This study aims to analyze information on vessel traffic between the two Koreas with a probability distribution for each route/vessel type. The study will then conduct an estimate for maritime transport patterns of inter-Korean trade in the future. To analyze the flow of inter-Korean coastal shipping, this study conducted visualization analysis of shipping status between North and South Korea by year, ship type, and port using navigation data of three years from Port Logistics Information System (Port-MIS) sources during 2006 to 2008, which saw the most active exchanges between the two governments. Also, this study analyzes shipping status between the two governments as a probability distribution for each port and provides the prospects for future maritime transport for inter-Korean trade by means of Bayesian Networks and simulation. The results of the analysis are as follows: i) when North-South routes are reopened, the import volume for sand from North Korea will be increased; ii) investment in the modernization of ports in North Korea is required so that shipping companies can generate profit through economies of scale; iii) the number of the operating vessels including container ships between the two governments is expected to increase like when the tensions and conflict on the Korean Peninsula was release, especially between Busan port in South Korea and Nampo port in North Korea; and iv) among container ships, transshipment containers imported and exported through Busan Port will be shipped to North Korea by feeder transportation.

Integrasi Layanan Trans Koetaradja dengan Feeder Angkutan Labi-Labi di Kota Banda Aceh

The Aceh Provincial Government through the department of transportation in 2016 began operating Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) in Banda Aceh city. The presence of Trans Koetaradja is expected to be able to implement a mass transit system that is capable of maintaining order, traffic congestion and traffic jam in Banda Aceh City. However, the existence of BRT Trans Koetaradja poses a threat to the existence of drivers and businessmen of transporting labi-labi in Banda Aceh City. Starting from the problem, this research aims to create the form of integration of BRT Trans Koetaradja service with feeder of labi-labi transportation in Banda Aceh City. The research method used is descriptive analysis of kunatitatif which will describe the potential of travel demand and condition of existing road network. In addition, it uses a spatial descriptive analysis method to formulate the form of feeder transport routes of labi-labi and analyze the operational integration of routes, time and rates. The result of the research shows that there are 6 feeder routes that will serve the corridor I Keudah-Darussalam namely Prada area route, Zainal Abidin General Hospital route, Simpang Keramat route, Unsyiah campus route and UIN Ar-Raniry route, Aceh Governor Office and route of Simpang Mesra area. Operationally, the integration of Trans Koetaradja transport service time with feeder transport of labi-labi is at 07.00-18.00 wib. The required headway of each feeding route is 4-9 minutes. The travel time required for each feeder route is 10-15 minutes with the number of fleets used by 32 units to serve 6 (six) feeder routes. In terms of tariff integration, the cost to be spent per passenger to use labi-labi transportation on each feeder route is between Rp.1.000 - Rp. 1,500.

76 Shipping calves to the Southern Great Plains: Impact of mode, timing, distance and cattle type

Abstract This presentation will discuss historical transportation information, recommendations and available transportation data. Stocker and feeder cattle transportation in the U.S. is virtually unchanged in the last five decades. Transportation stress continues to be accepted as an important factor in the morbidity and mortality of cattle shipped to Southern Great Plains feedyards and stocker operations. Transportation research has occurred in bits and pieces that provide glimpses into mechanisms involved but in general the results are puzzle pieces that have had little influence on transportation techniques. The Electronic Logging Device (ELD) use mandate in livestock hauling will impact stocker and feeder transport to the Great Plains. The extent of which is not yet known and recent delays in implementation with concurrent “exceptions” and “adjustments” make it unclear what the future will hold for stocker and feeder cattle transportation. The Livestock Marketing Association (LMA) has in recent decades developed voluntary livestock handling and transportation training for their customers. Some of the training has been accomplished in a partnership with the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA). The first of these were the “Focal Point” training and “Master Transporter Guide.” More recent, NCBA has developed Beef Quality Assurance (BQA) Transportation certification training for both “Farmer/Rancher” and “Professional Drivers.” Packers have embraced this effort and the major packers currently require all drivers delivering livestock to their operations to be certified. The NCBA BQA Transportation training certification is applicable to stocker and feeder drivers hauling cattle to the Great Plains, but currently it is rare that stocker and feeder operations require drivers to have transportation certification that bring cattle to their operations. Interesting and useful data will be reviewed, such as transportation data collected from Dr. Richeson and Dr. Lawrence at West Texas A&M University. Finding examples include; cattle during transportation can take thousands of steps while on in the semi-trailer with differing number of steps and G-Forces being recorded for cattle on the top deck compared to cattle on the lower deck.

Evaluasi Pelayanan Kinerja Angkutan Pemadu Moda di Bandara Soekarno Hatta dan Upaya Peningkatannya

Soekarno-Hatta International Airport as a gateway has supported facilities such as the availability of airport transportation service integrator modes, namely: Damri Bus, Taxi, Bus Primajasa, Cipaganti Shuttle, Shuttle Bus, Transport Charter, City transport, and Motor Vehicle/Ojek as an alternative option for passenger air transport to final destination in Soeakrno Hatta Airport. Based SKEP. Adbandara Number ADSH.03/HK.30/III/2000, concerning Rules and Procedures of activities at Soekarno Hatta Airport in Article 78 regarding the operation of public transportation (1) describedthe permission of the operation of public transport in Soekarno Hatta Airport by the Directorate General of Land Transportation. Airline flight schedules both domestic and international flights have been adapted to the schedule of available modes of transport integrator at Soekarno Hatta Airport for passengers who want to use a transportation mode integrator who will travel tmuards the final destination is not too long to wait in the waiting room Soekarno Hatta Airport.Keywords: Service, Performance Feeder Transportation

Land use and public transport integration in small cities and towns: Assessment methodology and application

It is widely accepted that land use and public transport planning should be harmonised in order to provide a viable alternative to car transport. Following the Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) concept, many studies and plans aim to concentrate urban development in areas accessible by high-quality public transport. Encouraged by studies asserting the positive relation between urban density and public transport use, scholars and practitioners focused their attention on tools and strategies that increase urban density, thereby overlooking geographical contexts where these strategies cannot be applied. TOD might however be also a valuable strategy in low-density contexts, like lower density parts of metropolitan areas, or suburban areas and small towns. It seems therefore relevant and interesting to develop a methodology to explore the value of TOD strategies in such contexts. Our paper fills this analytical and application gap and proposes to extend the conceptualization and implementation of land use and public transport integration to areas where low-density urban development has already occurred (e.g., low-density suburbs, or areas where the protection of natural and cultural heritage precedes urban development). In such cases, where is not possible to increase urban density around transport nodes, the quality of the transport network plays a decisive role.The approach builds on the Node-Place Model by including evaluations of the quality of feeder networks. We applied the methodology to a case study in the Campania Region in southern Italy, indicating a possible way to evaluate land use and public transport integration while considering, at the same time, the quality of transport as network.The application of the methodology allowed to highlight imbalances between accessibility – by main and feeder transport – and land use intensity, and to sketch urban development strategies and priorities of intervention on the transport network.

Modelling port subsidy policies considering pricing decisions of feeder carriers

Feeder transportation is a key element of a port-oriented intermodal transportation system. In this paper, a pricing model is developed to investigate port subsidies to various players, i.e., mainline companies, feeder carriers, and shippers. The results show that port subsidies change the market equilibrium. Subsidies to mainline carriers increase the profit of the entire mainline-feeder liner shipping system. Subsidies to shippers decrease the equilibrium freight rates and stimulate the shipping demand, while subsidies to feeder carriers reduce operational costs and increase profitability. The results serve as policy recommendations to achieve various long-term goals in port development.

Monopoly Rents in Motorcycle Taxi Services in Bangkok, Thailand

This paper examines the market for motorcycle taxi services in Bangkok, Thailand, in terms of economic rent and the effects of such rent on fares. Three sources of monopoly rent in motorcycle taxi services are identified. Locational rent is attributed to the level of accessibility that is specific to the location of a motorcycle taxi stand. Such locations are limited in terms of accessibility, with few locations that can be substituted with another. The quota rent is arbitrarily created by rent-seeking activities, that is, by setting a quota on the number of operators in each location. Territorial rent is created by restricting the service area for each operator group. Depending on the behavior of the so-called influential people, the monopoly can be either enforced or eroded. A regression analysis of fare data provides evidence that supports the hypothesis of locational and territorial rents. Locational rent decreases as a motorcycle taxi stand is located farther away from a rail transit station. Motorcycle taxi groups with demarcated territories command a fare premium, which may indicate territorial rent. Some stands enjoy a degree of monopoly where there are limited substitute feeder transport modes; stands located near bus stops also command a fare premium because of accessibility. This situation implies that bus services do not compete with motorcycle taxis but provide complementary services. The additional economic rent created by new transit systems is unfairly captured by operator groups and influential people. It is suggested that a competitive market be created for motorcycle taxi services, with value-capture measures that are intended to create a more efficient and fairer feeder transport system.

Optimal Locations of Bus Stops Connecting Subways near Urban Intersections

Unsuitable locations of bus stops which provide feeder transportation connecting subways near urban intersections usually lead to the low efficiency of public transport and level of passenger service. A multiobjective optimization model to distribute such stop locations is proposed to attain the shortest total walk distance of passengers and minimum delay time of cars through intersections and travel time of buses. The Pareto frontier and optimal solutions for the proposed model are given by the distance-based and enumerative methods. The Xizhimen bus stop is selected to implement case studies for verifying the validity of the proposed model. The analysis of sensitivity on possible solutions is also carried out in the case studies. The results show that the proposed model is capable of optimizing the locations of bus stops connecting subways near intersections and helpful to improve the level of passengers service and operational efficiency of public transportation.

Estimation of CO2 reduction for Japanese domestic container transportation based on mathematical models

This research discusses domestic feeder container transportation connected with international trades in Japan. Optimal round trip courses of container ship fleet from the perspective of CO2 emission reduction are calculated and analyzed to obtain basic knowledge about CO2 emission reduction in the container feeder transportation system. Specifically, based on the weekly origin–destination (OD) data at a hub port (Kobe) and other related transportation data, the ship routes are designed by employing a mathematical modeling approach. First, a mixed integer programming model is formulated and solved by using an optimization software that employs branch and bound algorithm. The objective function of the model is to minimize the CO2 emission subject to necessary (and partially simplified) constraints. The model is then tested on various types of ships with different speed and capacity. Moreover, it is also tested on various waiting times at hub port to investigate the effect in CO2 emission of the designated fleet. Both the assessment method of container feeder transportation and the transportation’s basic insights in view of CO2 emission are shown through the analysis.

Design of reliable SONET feeder networks

We address the physical SONET network design problem of selecting stackable, unidirectional rings connecting central office nodes (COs) and remote nodes (RNs). This problem frequently arises in designing feeder transport networks to support centralized traffic between the COs and RNs. We formulate a 0---1 programming model for this problem. A simulated annealing-based Lagrangian relaxation procedure to find optimal or near-optimal solutions is then described. Computational results are reported showing that our procedures produce solutions that are on average within 1.1% of optimality. We show that using simulated annealing to augment the pure Lagrangian approach produces superior solutions to the Lagrangian approach.

マルチユーザコンテナターミナルの利用実態に関する調査

Containerships become larger in order to satisfy the economics of scale. It is only a matter of time before over 10,000 TEU ships make an appearance. For controlling the larger containerships effectively, the number of those calling ports decreases, and transportation system from those ports to destination ports depends on feeder transport. When those ships are absent, other ships should also use the berths where larger containerships can use exclusively. Therefore, this terminal should be used as the multi-user terminal. From existing studies concerning with the multi-user terminal, there are most of studies for berthing schedule. However, there is not an accurate grasp study of the actual condition among the multi-user container terminal, and it is very useful for existing studies as mentioned above that we collect the information of calling ships in some ports. Therefore we discuss the actual utilization of the multi-user terminals. From the results, it is clear that some shipping companies use the specific terminals or berths in the multi-user terminals.

Wie verankern sich Häfen im Raum?

Drawing on the examples of the seaport of Rotterdam and the International Airport Schiphol, Anton Kreukels, Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Utrecht, points out three main issues concerning the relationship of ports and city-regions: (1) Strategic decisions affecting seaports as well as airports are no longer dominated by local actors but related to national and international levels. (2) Increasingly the hub-and-spoke-system, a well-known phenomenon in air traffic networks, is also manifest with regard to seaports. This results in a network with other—often lower ranking—seaports by feeder transport, and in a network with inland terminals cooperating with international seaports like Rotterdam and enabling efficient and reliable container transshipment. (3) Spatial planners have not yet adjusted their planning procedures to this reality of national- and international-based decision-making and hierarchical-organized logistics infrastructures.

Designing packet-switched feeder networks with survivability and node compatibility constraints: Korean HiNET-P case

In this paper we present heuristic algorithms to solve the combined problem of topology design, capacity assignment and routing for feeder transport networks that connect local access subnets to a packet?switched backbone network. The algorithms are designed to build a two?edge?connected topology with the average packet delay constraint, switch throughput constraint, and two optional, additional constraints: dual homing and node compatibility requirements. Graph?theoretic algorithms are used for topology design and the flow deviation algorithm is used for routing and capacity assignment. Computational results using Korea Telecom's field data show that the algorithms can generate low?cost feasible networks for 50 node problems within 20 s.

Public transport investment and residential property values in helsinki1

The article is based on the theory of hedonic price. An empirical study was carried out to determine the effects of various structural, locational, environmental and social factors on the market price of privately owned dwellings in the city of Helsinki, Finland. The results indicate that the distance to the city centre and the proximity of metro stations are two of the factors which significantly affect the market price of dwellings. This means that the positive and negative effects of the recently constructed metro have capitalized into the market value of property in the vicinity and in feeder transport areas.

A Study on the Relation between Pattern of Urban Area around the Station and Feeder Transportation

A Study on the Relation between Pattern of Urban Area around the Station and Feeder Transportation