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The purpose of this paper is to study the container transportation by rail and by road as alternative policies for carriage and to choose the effective one. A methodology to evaluate both transportation and ranking them has been developed. The Sequential Interactive Modelling for Urban Systems (SIMUS) as a tool to aid decision-making problems with multiple objectives has been applied. The methodology of the research includes two scenarios taking into account the weights of criteria – the first scenario does not use the weights of criteria and for the second one it is necessary to apply the weights which are pre-defined. The methodology of the research includes four steps. The first step defines the quantitative and qualitative criteria for assessment of container transportation. The investigated strategies for transportation that have been studied are intermodal rail transport and road transport. The weighs of criteria have been determined in the second step. They are used only in the second scenario. The third step of the research formulates the alternatives of carriage by containers and includes two ways of transportation: by container block trains and by trucks. The SIMUS method has been applied in the fourth step for ranking the variants of transportation. The method solves successive scenarios formulated as linear programming. This step involves ranking of alternatives and the choice of optimal type of transportation. The methodology is approbated for the routes Sofia-Varna from the railway and road network of Bulgaria. It was found that the technologies that include rail transport are the best variants of transportation. The methodology can be applied for assessment different types of transportation and different transport policies.

Application of SIMUS method for assessment alternative transport policies for container carriage