Freight Distribution Analysis in Multimodal Shipping Networks
摘要
In recent years, logistic transporters and shipping carriers have faced the challenge of balancing objectives like cost, time, and emissions. To explore these trade-offs, we developed a multi-objective, multimodal transportation model. Using a lexicographic approach to prioritize objectives, we focused on one-way flows along the Ontario-Quebec trade corridor from Western Europe. Our model integrates precise data on shipping and receiving ports, container ships, and the Northeastern American rail network. This allows us to analyze mode-specific costs, transit times, and CO2e emissions. Our results highlight, in an international context, the importance of the drayage costs while maritime transport monopolizes a significant share of CO2e emissions due to the interport distance. In that regard, emphasizing multimodality in land-based distribution networks can help alleviate the economic and environmental brunt tied to truck haulage.