Market area of intermodal rail‐road container terminals embedded in a hub‐and‐spoke network

Sabine Limbourg and Bart Jourquin

Papers in Regional Science, 2010, vol. 89, issue 1, 135-154

Abstract: Abstract 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. A particular 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. Resumen Este artículo presenta una metodología capaz de comparar áreas de mercado por carretera o intermodales carretera‐ferrocarril y que tiene en cuenta las estructuras de la red, los costos operativos y la ubicación de los terminales de ferrocarril‐carretera. Se esboza e ilustra un modo en particular de modelizar el transporte por ferrocarril‐carretera en redes estrella de eje y radios. Se muestra el área de mercado de una configuración de red óptima de ocho ejes tanto para la mediana del eje‐p como para el problema de centro de eje‐p. Le sigue una discusión sobre la evolución del área de mercado de acuerdo al número y localización de los ejes implementados.

Date: 2010
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