Reliable Routing of Road-Rail Intermodal Freight under Uncertainty

• Published in: Networks and spatial economics Vol. 19; no. 3; pp. 929 - 952
• Main Authors: Uddin, Majbah, Huynh, Nathan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Springer US 01.09.2019; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Civil Engineering; Confidence intervals; Disruption; Economic activity; Economics; Economics and Finance; Freight terminals; Freight transportation; Intermodal; Intermodal transportation; Man made disasters; Natural disasters; Network reliability; Operations Research/Decision Theory; Regional/Spatial Science; Route planning; Segments; Supply chains; Transport buildings, stations and terminals; Uncertainty; Road-rail freight; Uncertainty; Reliable routing; Intermodal freight network

Transportation infrastructures, particularly those supporting intermodal freight, are vulnerable to natural disasters and man-made disasters that could lead to severe service disruptions. These disruptions can drastically degrade the capacity of a transportation mode and consequently have adverse im...