« Market area of intermodal rail-road container terminals embedded in a hub-and–spoke network

[en] This paper presents a methodology able to compare road and rail-road intermodal market areas that takes the network structures, the operation costs and the location of the rail-road terminals into account.Aparticular way to model rail-road transport on hub-and-spoke networks is outlined and illustrated on the trans-European networks. The market area of an optimal eight hubs network configuration is presented both for the p-hub median and the p-hub centre problem. This is followed by a discussion about the evolution of the market area according to the number and locations of the implemented hubs.

Disciplines :

Special economic topics (health, labor, transportation...)

Author, co-author :

Limbourg, Sabine ; Facultés Universitaires Catholiques de Mons - FUCaM > Louvain School of Management

Jourquin, Bart; Facultés Universitaires Catholiques de Mons - FUCaM > Louvain School of Management

Language :

English

Title :

« Market area of intermodal rail-road container terminals embedded in a hub-and–spoke network

Publication date :

March 2010

Journal title :

Papers in Regional Science

ISSN :

1056-8190

eISSN :

1435-5957

Publisher :

wiley

Volume :

Issue :

Pages :

135–154

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