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Loading Unit in Freight Transport Modelling

Author(s) -

Koen Mommens,

Tom Van Lier,

Cathy Macharis

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

procedia computer science

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.334

H-Index - 76

ISSN - 1877-0509

DOI - 10.1016/j.procs.2016.04.186

Subject(s) - transshipment (information security) , pallet , computer science , commodity , variety (cybernetics) , traffic management , operations research , transport engineering , business , mathematics , computer security , finance , marketing , artificial intelligence , engineering

Freight transport flows are generating high number of vehicle movements. Modelling freight flows gives consequently crucial information for both public and private decision makers. Generally freight transport models consider flows by commodity type between meso-level traffic analysis zones. Only a few models are taking into account loading units, as they make the difference between containers and general cargo. There is, however, a huge variety within the general cargo category. Pallets, liquid bulk, solid bulk and others have different characteristics in terms of volumes, inventory costs, transshipment costs, et cetera. Considering those issues is new and primordial contribution in the evolution of freight transport modelling towards more disaggregated agent-based systems. Nine different types of loading units are together with ten commodity types integrated in an agent-based freight transport model for Belgium which is currently under development

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