EMOLITE - Evaluation Model for the Optimal Location of Intermodal Terminals in Europe
Overview
Background & policy context:
The efficiency of the Trans-European Transport Network relies heavily on the strategic location of terminals. Decision-making about the future development of terminals involves public and private bodies, each with their own selection criteria and parameters. What they lack is a comprehensive tool to handle information about the quality and suitability of potential locations for intermodal terminals. A new approach to the selection of intermodal terminals would need to take account of general and terminal-specific features, as well as public and private selection criteria.
Objectives:
EMOLITE aimed to support the development of modern European intermodal transport networks by integrating all relevant supply and demand requirements of intermodal distribution and transhipment centres, as well as passenger terminals, into a decision support system.
The main objectives have been:
- to develop a decision support system to evaluate potential terminal locations, taking into account the dynamics and changes to the transportation market;
- to enable decision-makers as well as operational managers (transport network designers) to compare different potential locations using a flexible and comprehensive computer simulation model.
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