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Railway Industrial Track as the Last Mile in Supply Chain Management

Today’s transport of goods has renaissance in using again railway as part of transport chain. In the past because of inert railway the very big amounts of goods go to road transport. Of course, in these days, it is very ecologically to do modal shift from road to railway. Therefore, the railway is again one of the key player in transport chain. Supply chain management is integrated approach for solving all movements of good form point of origin to point of destination. Specially, last five years is very intensive research and use of supply chain management. Normally, every transport have last and first mile, so it is very pragmatic to optimize this step in whole transport chain. With the greater role of railway in whole supply chain management the last mile become very significant. In today’s railway, last mile is on more than 85% of transport goods on railway industrial track. Therefore, it is very important to optimize every aspect of using railway industrial track. Key aspects are (1) legal, (2) organizational, (3) technical, (4) technological and (5) economic. All those five aspects are crucial for using of railway industrial track as the part of supply chain management. In this article, it will be present case study of using the railway industrial track in Croatia and interaction and optimization of key aspects.

railway industrial track ; supply chain management ; goods

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