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Implementing Intermodal Transport Solutions in Urban Transportation

The transport problem of cargo distribution in urban areas has been recognized as one of the essential problems. Increase in cargo transport share has raised also the issue of traffic density on urban roads, which in turn, raised the problem of traffic flows in cities, congestion, traffic sustainability and environmental pollution. The past research related to solving the congestion problem in cities was based on tendencies improving the entire transport system. One of the ways is to shift a certain volume of cargo from road to other transport modes, which results in reducing the number of heavy cargo vehicles on roads, reduction of adverse impact, i.e. usage of intermodal transport, which is more environmentally friendly. In accordance with the natural assumptions of intermodal transport development, as those that exist in Central and South Europe, and through investment into terminals, infrastructure, by modernization and reorganization of the entire transport process, and of the technical elements, by uniform merging of all the traffic branches, the tendency is to improve and enhance the very operation of the urban, and particularly suburban traffic, resulting in the need for systemic research of traffic problems in cities. Simulation experiments on the basis of a developed conceptual model based on the recorded system parameters, will be used to present the justification of the planning activity and to consider different solutions prior to development and implementation. In the area of reducing congestion in urban transport with the aim of implementing intermodal transport solutions, the need for simulation experimenting has been generated by the very characteristic of intermodal system and its complexity. Therefore, the work focuses on system modelling with the aim of creating a conceptual model based on the functional system characteristics, which gives incentive to further simulation experiments and finally the quantitative argumentation for selecting certain intermodal transport solutions.

Simulation modelling; intermodal transport; urban

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