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Multimodal transport

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Modelling and solving a real-world truck-trailer scheduling problem in container transportation with separate moving objects

Container transportation is pivotal in global supply chains, facilitating the exchange of goods between companies across different countries. Given the exceedingly high operational costs of transporting containers, optimizing itinerary schedules can yield ...

New Delhi2024

Analysis of the Relations Between Daily Space-Time Behaviours and Modal Practices. The Case of Switzerland

Vincent Kaufmann, Guillaume Simon Joseph Drevon, Alexis Gumy, Armelle Loreline Hausser

Reducing the role of the car in daily mobility practices is still largely a struggle for Switzerland's public transport policies. Adapting transport supply to user demand is the major challenge for this modal shift, the response to which requires a detaile ...

2020

BUSINESS TRAVELLER . How pod planes could change travel forever

Futuristic and disruptive There are several independent initiatives exploring the feasibility of modular planes, which could transform the way people and cargo travel. One of these revolutionary aircraft designs, called Clip-Air, has been created by Switze ...

2018

Clip-Air: How pod planes could change travel forever

Claudio Leonardi

Despite, or perhaps because of, its simple design, the shipping container is one of the most disruptive inventions of the past century. It allows cargo to be moved cheaply from one mode of transport to another and has facilitated the development of the com ...

2016

Probabilistic multimodal map-matching with rich smartphone data

Michel Bierlaire, Jingmin Chen

This article proposes a probabilistic method that infers the transport modes and the physical paths of trips from smartphone data that were recorded during travels. This method synthesizes multiple kinds of data from smartphone sensors, which provide relev ...

Taylor & Francis Inc2015

Modeling Route Choice Behavior Using Smartphone Data

Jingmin Chen

In this thesis, we develop methods for modeling route choice behavior using smartphone data. The developing global positioning system (GPS) technology and the popularity of smartphones have revolutionized the revealed preference route choice data collectio ...

EPFL2013

On the distribution of urban road space for multimodal congested networks

Nikolaos Geroliminis, Nan Zheng

Transport systems in real cities are complex with many modes of transport sharing and competing for limited road space. This work intends to understand how space distributions for modes and interactions among modes affect network traffic performance. While ...

Elsevier2013

Trade and Climate Policies: Do Emissions from International Transport Matter?

Frank Vöhringer

This paper provides orders of magnitude of the importance of CO2 emissions from international transport freight activities under a variety of scenarios regarding trade and climate policies. It is based on a stylized multi-region, multi-sector CGE model tha ...

2013

Taste heterogeneity and latent preferences in the choice behaviour of freight transport operators

Michel Bierlaire

In this paper we show that individual attitudes of road carriers and their latent preferences toward specific freight service attributes do play a role in determining their mode choices. Specifically, we contribute to the empirical literature on freight ag ...

Elsevier Sci Ltd2013

Probabilistic multimodal map-matching with rich smartphone data

Michel Bierlaire, Jingmin Chen

This paper proposes a probabilistic method that infers the transport modes and the physical path of trips from smartphone data that were recorded during travels. This method synthesizes multiple kinds of data from smartphone sensors which provide relevant ...

2012

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