Should we keep on renaming a +35-year-old baby?

Vasco Reis

Journal of Transport Geography, 2015, vol. 46, issue C, 173-179

Abstract: Over the last +35 years at least five concepts – multimodal, intermodal, combined, co-modal and synchromodal – relating to freight transport chains have been put forward. I pinpoint the main properties of each concept and trace a plausible evolutionary path. The original concept is multimodal transport; the newest one is synchromodal transport. Every new concept borrows certain elements from the previous concepts and introduces new ones.

Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2015.06.019

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