Designing integrated transport systems
Like motherhood and apple pie, "integrated" transport is seen today to be eminently desirable and we cannot understand why it is so difficult to achieve.
What could be more logical, than to ensure that one's goods are carried from their origin to their destination in a smoothly functioning transport chain, so that the lorry meets the train and the train the ship at the other end of the ocean passage and the same smooth junction is accomplished in reverse?
It is tremendously desirable, not least because of the cost savings and convenience, but it is not as easy as it appears on paper.
Just consider getting to work and the problems that may arise when the bus and train and tube don't mesh smoothly and there is a long wait at station and bus stop, while, to make matters worse, the bus company won't accept the train company tickets.
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What could be more logical, than to ensure that one's goods are carried from their origin to their destination in a smoothly functioning transport chain, so that the lorry meets the train and the train the ship at the other end of the ocean passage and the same smooth junction is accomplished in reverse?
It is tremendously desirable, not least because of the cost savings and convenience, but it is not as easy as it appears on paper.
Just consider getting to work and the problems that may arise when the bus and train and tube don't mesh smoothly and there is a long wait at station and bus stop, while, to make matters worse, the bus company won't accept the train company tickets.
To read the full article, click here..
To read the ePaper, visit:
http://www.eshippingtoday.com/ST/ST/2008/10/13/index.shtml
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