Design Guidelines for Road and Rail Freight Terminals (VSS1998/189)
Overview
Background & policy context:
The currently available terminal infrastructure in Switzerland can handle more amounts only to a limited extent and the existing systems can usually not efficient operation to. Particularly lacking cost concepts and systems for terminals with small and medium throughput volumes. Efficient terminal systems are important in order to improve the competitiveness of combined transport in internal traffic and the import / export traffic.
Objectives:
The research aims to provide the basis for a standard for geometric dimensioning of intermodal systems, with the aim to plan operationally efficient and economical terminals and to create in order to promote the transfer of freight from road to the combined transport.
Methodology:
During the project existing standards (notably Austria, Denmark) are evaluated, then interviews are conducted with terminal operators and there are pointed out the technical developments in the KLV.
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