By Isabella M. Lami
Eurocorridors are characterised through extensive delivery flows and dynamic styles of firm and family destinations. also they are thought of the backbones of strong spatial and monetary forces within the parts that attach city areas. one of many major problems within the spatial making plans of eurocorridors has been the necessity to interact in numerous kinds of collective motion. Such an strategy could be super hard in perform, worthwhile to researchers within the box and to pros in addition.
In the sunshine of this, the book’s major pursuits are:
- To outline the matter by means of reading the major positive factors, which come with freight and passenger delivery rules and matters; the territorial context, with its geographical, social, fiscal and cultural points; the plurality of topics with assorted goals and assets and the inability of homogeneous info.
- to demonstrate evaluate types and assessment frameworks (MCDA; Discrete selection research; Collaborative tests; Geovisualization applied sciences) in theoretical phrases and by means of case studies.
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The increasing population size entails an increasing mobility demand, but recent trends show that also population composition is changing and needs to be taken into account. g. leisure trips). This may result in an increase of demand for collective modes of transport, even if nowadays elderly people represent a larger share in driving population than in the past. On the other hand, the decreasing number of persons in the productive age category and their progressive substitution by immigrants, filling employment gaps especially in low skilled jobs, is affecting mobility patterns in terms of number and purpose of trips and choice of cheaper transport modes.
There usually is also a third leg from a distribution centre, where the consolidated shipment is broken down into multiple shipments for the different receivers. Consolidation can be done with storage at the transhipment location. However it can also involve the use of ‘cross-docking’, which means that the vehicle from which the goods are unloaded and the vehicle on which the goods are loaded are present at the terminal at the same time, and that the goods are moved from one vehicle to the other, 22 G.
M. 1007/978-3-319-04786-7_3, Ó Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014 33 34 B. Musso of maritime transport of general cargo possible. The process originates from the standardisation of a trailer box that is made separate from its wheels and is fitted with specific features to facilitate handling by mechanical means. These standardised coupling systems, the corner fittings, not only enable automated handling, but are also used for stacking up to 9 containers and for lifting them onto the means of transport, be it ship, train or trailer.