interim
interim, INtegration in the intermodal goods
Transport of non EU states: Rail, Inland /
coastal waterway Modes
3rd interim Project Newsletter
2nd half year 2007
The project is part-financed by the
INTERREG III B CADSES Neighbourhood
Programme of the European Union
interim newsletter
LEAD PARTNER
Content
Æ Preface
Æ Project News
Æ Mr. Ralf Lipinski, VIOM GmbH:
Approach for an Internet Based
Intermodal Planning Tool
Æ Mr. Stefan Herold: Comparison
of different intermodal IT-Tools
Æ Improvement of Intermodal
Market
Æ Contact Data / Facts
Prof. Milos, Prof. Dujmovic and Prof.
Sonntag presenting results of interim
project at the LINDI conference,
Wildau, DE
Prefata
Preface
The increasing European goods transport
requires
new
innovative
transport
concepts.
The
integration
of
neighbourhood countries in Europe,
compensations of existing hinterland and
border crossing bottlenecks and the
future role of different transport modes
are integrated elements in forward
looking transport plans. Especially, the
intermodal
transport
shall
provide
solutions to shape the tomorrow goods
transport. Market barriers which prevent
intermodal transport from a higher
market share have to be analysed and
removed. One decisive barrier is the
underdeveloped IT and communication
infrastructure
between
the
various
market actors in the intermodal market.
That’s the point where the interim
project starts off. A decisive project
element is the development of IT-Tools
as an approach for an internet based
intermodal planning tool. Identifying user
groups, analysing their needs and
requirements, but also the technical
realisation, set up and testing phase are
central elements of interim.
The content specification has been
fulfilled and will be shortly presented in
following. Also the programming has
been started by the VIOM GmbH. Mr. Ralf
Lipinski, head of programming process
gives a brief overview about their
working steps.
Mr. Stefan Herold (University of Applied
Sciences bfi Vienna) worked out his
master thesis about intermodal planning
tools. He presents his main results and
states the positioning of interim IT-Tools
in these specific scientific landscape.
Cresterea volumlui de marfuri transportate
in Europa implica concepte de transport
inovative. Integrarea europeana a tarilor
vecine, compensarea locurilor strimte
existente in prezent in conexiunea
porturilor cu teritoriul adiacent si la
trecerile frontierelor, precum si viitorul rol
al diferitelor moduri de transport sunt
elemente integrate in planurile viitoare de
transport.
Transportul
intermodal
in
special, va furniza solutii care vor modela
transportul de marfuri in viitorul apropiat.
Barierele
comerciale
care
impiedica
extinderea segmentului de piata de
transport intermodal trebuie analizate si
inlaturate. O bariera decisiva consta in
slaba dezvoltare a infrastructurii TI si de
comunicare intre principalii factori de pe
piata din sectorul de transport intermodal.
Acesta este punctul de plecare al
proiectului interim. Un element decisiv al
proiectului consta in dezvoltarea de solutii
TI
concretizate
in
realizarea
unui
instrument bazat pe internet de planificare
in transportul intermodal. Identificarea
grupurilor de utilizatori, analiza cerintelor,
precum si realizarea tehnica, instalarea si
faza de testare reprezinta elementele de
baza ale proiectului interim.
Continutul va fi prezentat pe scurt in
continuare. De asemenea, programarea a
fost inceputa de catre VIOM GmbH. Dl.
Ralf Lipinski, conducatorul echipei de
programare va descrie pe scurt pasii facuti
pana acum.
Dl. Stefan Herold (University of Applied
Sciences bfi Viena) a dezvoltat teza sa de
masterat pe domeniul instrumentelor de
planificare
intermodala.
El
prezinta
principalele rezultate obtinute si expune
rolul instrumentelor TI interim in contextul
stiintific al problemelor sus mentionate.
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Project News
Public Workshop
Wildau, 13th
September 2007
On September 13th an
additional workshop was
held in Wildau, DE, in
cooperation
with
the
Interreg A-B Landbridge
project
(www.ablandbridge.eu).
Content of the joint
workshop was “Needs
and
instruments
for
spatial
planning
/
regional development in
the field of intermodal
goods transport”.
Mr. Dr. Walter Vassallo
presented
the
A-B
Landbridge project. Mr.
Dr. Markus Hesse, as
guest from the FU Berlin,
gave an overview of
“Logistics
and Spatial
Development:
Regional
Development Outcomes,
Spatial Plannings Needs“.
Participants at the workshop in Wildau, DE
Central questions which have been discussed among
participants:
• In which fields and how is the intermodal goods
transport integrated in the spatial planning?
• Where do deficits occur regarding the consideration of
intermodal goods transport in spatial planning?
• Which indicators can be used to reflect the specific
role of intermodal goods transport in the regional /
cross border development?
• Regarding future goods transport scenarios what kind
of instruments are needed to integrate intermodal
goods transport in the frame of spatial planning in a
better way?
Presentations
On September 13th-15th the LINDI
conference “International Symposium
on
Logistics
and
Industrial
Informatics” took place in Wildau.
Mr. Meimbresse, TFH Wildau, and Mr.
Lipinski, VIOM GmbH, presented the
interim project in context of “Tools for
Route Planning of Intermodal Logistic
Chains and Improvement Potential as
well as Adaptation for Spatial Planning
Purposes”.
Furthermore
our
partners
from
Croatia, our partner viadonau from
Austria and GVZ Glauchau, Germany,
joined
the
conference
and
disseminated the interim project.
Project Workshop
Our last interim project workshop
“New liner concepts and new concepts
for value added services in the
intermodal market” was held on 7th
November in Novi Sad, Serbia, with
more than 60 participants.
Connected to the workshop in Serbia
the 5th international logistic fair in
Novi Sad took place. Mr. Meimbresse,
TFH Wildau, presented the interim
project at the fair conference to
logistic experts.
Next Step
The next interim partner meeting for
evaluating new project outcomes and
working
on
further
actions
is
scheduled on February 8th 2008 in
Vienna, Austria.
www.interim-online.eu
Mr. Meimbresse and Mr. Lipinski
at the LINDI conference
Our homepage is constantly updated.
Workshop presentations, workpackage
documents,
newsletters, further
publications and news about the
project are available!
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interim IT-Tool – Approach for an Internet Based
Intermodal Planning Tool, Mr. Ralf Lipinski
Like business actors in other markets, transport and logistics
service companies in the intermodal transport market need
applications for planning, management and monitoring. Because
in the intermodal transport business different actors are involved
in the generation of a service, the requirements regarding
complexity, interconnectivity and flexibility of such applications
are higher. Especially IT-based instruments are needed to cover
the problems along the supply chain. Despite the fact that
progress has made in establishing ICTs, the existing solutions are
not in line with the market needs.
The
interim
IT-Tool
as
a
further
development of the Route Planning and
Infrastructure Information Tool ECO4LOG
meets this complexity by connecting
required information for logistic service
providers and operators (B2B) as well as
spatial planners and administrations (A2A).
Aim is that users of intermodal transportation services shall be supported in their
strategic transportation planning process
by reliable information about intermodal
transport facilities in the defined clusters.
A decision support system shall enable
them to choose between a number of
alternative transport routes and modes
based on decision criteria such as availability of transport possibilities, needed
services and transport time and costs.
Routing without consideration
of existing market offers
Blue: Inland waterway
Green: Rail
Routing with consideration of
existing market offers
Red dotted: BOHEMIA Combi offer.
This offer can be selected and will
serve as a defined “backbone” for
the complete routing process.
Figure: Example B2B - Integration of market offers
Calculation / presentation of feasible
distances in given time steps for all
directions from a starting point under
consideration of the network‘s
parameters – Isochrones
Time view
Scenario features:
Modification of travel times, velocity
Addition/change of network elements
→ Changes in accessibility visible
Route planning and infrastructure
information tools consist in general of
an infrastructure network database
and a routing algorithm.
For
intermodal planning purposes the
network database contains road, rail,
and inland navigation information
regarding
all
included
network
segments.
Moreover, intermodal
terminals serve as nodes connecting
the different networks (modes of
transport). Various routing algorithms
to calculate the shortest path in
networks exist. The Dijkstra-algorithm
describes a solution for a directed,
weighted graph.
For
representing
the
intermodal
terminals
as
interfaces
between
different
transport
networks
the
consideration
of
information
are
needed e.g. for distances to cover,
transhipment times, costs and energy
consumption inside the terminal. This
kind of information is essential for the
calculation and comparison of different
transport alternatives or paths in the
network. Therefore, a work-around is
needed to consider needed information
properly. The basic idea is to integrate
a microscopic view showing that a
node
concerning
transport
and
transhipment processes also consists
of (virtual) segments representing the
connections to the transport modes
and can be weighted with values
(time,
distance,
costs,
energy
consumption). Adding to the nodes n
additional segments s, a geometrical
representation of processes/values
inside the terminals is possible.
ni,k
si,k
Also for energy consumption
Ecological View
ni
Also for cost calculations
Cost View
simple connectivity between
network segments
ni,k-1
consideration of intermodal
terminals with weighted
segments
Figure: Logical representation of intermodal
terminals in a Dijkstra graph
Figure: Example A2A - Accessibility Analyses
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Overview Comparison of different
intermodal IT-Tools, Mr. Stefan Herold
A focal aim of the EU is the strengthening of intermodal transport
as a central element of sustainable future transport solutions
regarding the steady growth of European freight transport. To turn
out the advantages of the different transport modes like capacity,
energy consumption, flexibility, environmental effects and safety
intermodal transport chains have to be realized to attract the
intermodal transport to the market users.
The high complexity of intermodal transport solutions regarding
planning processes, organization and realizations asks for software
orientated solutions to support the intermodal transport market.
As next step the criteria results were
added and summarized in the three
criteria groups as shown in the given
overview table below.
The analysed tools showed different
advantages in the different analysed
criteria. As illustrated the ECO4LOG-ITTool (the forerunner of the interim IT-tool)
attains the highest score regarding
‘Usability and Users’, ‘System and
Applications’
and
‘Results
and
Practicability’. The ECO4LOG-Tools showed
significant advantages for generating
intermodal transport chains at this time.
The tool is useable by different users as
logistic chain organisers (LCO), logistic
chain providers (LCP) and information
users. It further provides each user
essential information for transport chain
planning as well as other important
information like opening times or contact
information of terminals and handling
operators. Depending on particular targets
of each user the tools proposes the fastest
(time), shortest (distance), cheapest
(costs) as well as the ecological friendliest
transport route by combining the different
modes
of
transport.
Regarding
geographical constraints the tool includes
maps
and
information
for
Austria,
Germany, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia
as well as connections to the North Sea
and the Adriatic Sea.
During the last years several intermodal
tools have been developed in that
context. The tools show different focal
points and are differently characterised
through
defined
user
groups,
techniques, geographical constraints
and operability.
Mr. Herold from the University of
Applied Sciences bfi Vienna worked out
his master thesis about intermodal
planning tools and analysed differences.
In this process, different criteria groups
were defined as ‘Usability and Users’,
‘System and Applications’ as well as
‘Results and Practicability’ for the
comparison of the tools. The first
criteria group discusses aims, main
functions, users and essential input
parameters. ‘System and Applications’
refers
to
users,
databases
and
geographical constraints of the tools. In
the last criteria group the quality and
quantity of the outputs as well as the
benefit for the different user groups are
discussed.
After specifying the criteria groups,
each criteria was quantified. A quality
ranking (1 = low evaluation, 5 = high
evaluation) was elaborated and each
criteria has been weighted and related
to different valences. The operations of
the tools have been evaluated with the
predefined criteria depending on the
performance degree of each single
criterion.
ECO4LOG
www.eco4log.de
The full version of master thesis
available at www.interim-online.eu.
ptv intermodal
guide
www.ptv.de
ETNA
is
DISMOD
www.alsodanube.at
www.imlfaunhofe
r.de/302.html
Usability and
Users
14
14
6
5
System and
Applications
18
16
14
19
Results and
Practicability
15
15
12
14
Final score
47
45
32
38
Table: Evaluation of selected tools
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Table: Concept of liner routes towards the Black Sea region
Workpackage 4.1: “Development of
new intermodal service concepts liner services”
Mrs. Jolanta Skalska
Among the countries and regions involved
in the interim project a concept for new
intermodal liner railway and inland
waterways services has been developed.
Maritime connections between ports and
hinterland as well as inland connections
between inland terminals have been
regarded. Liner services shall operate on
a fixed route, with fixed timetable, stop
shortly in nodes/terminals for rapid
loading/unloading
or
change
of
wagons/wagon groups, operate all–year–
round and have broad access for
interested companies.
The need for such services has been
identified on the basis of supply and
demand side evaluation in each country.
Within the supply side the existing
transport
services
have
been
investigated: existing intermodal trains
with containers, swap bodies and trailers,
conventional trains containing significant
intermodal potential and inland waterway
services. Also a part of road transport has
been identified for possible shifting to
railways and inland waterways. On the
demand side the economical situation and
potentials of regions have been analysed
and industrial clusters important for
intermodal
transport
have
been
elaborated. Based on national proposals
liner services in the CADSES area have
been carried out.
Based on national proposals liner services
in the CADSES area have been suggested
and consulted with interested intermodal
stakeholders (transportation and logistics
companies,
consignors,
regional
administrations). Possible liner services
on the following connections have been
highlighted: North Sea/Baltic ports –
Central Europe, ARA ports (Amsterdam,
Rotterdam, Antwerp)/Duisburg – South
East Europe, South German Industrial
Clusters – South–East Europe.
Workpackage 4.2: “Development of
new intermodal service concepts value added services”
Mr. Gerhard Schilk
Intermodal terminals hold an important
role in our today’s economy, as they
provide
transhipment
facilities
and
operations for traffic and transport
enterprises. Efficient interfaces are a
crucial element enabling interrelations
between all means of transport in order to
offer multimodal / intermodal transport
chains.
Intermodal
terminals
(e.g.
logistics terminals, freight villages, rail
terminals, inland ports, sea ports)
influence and stimulate also their regional
and economic regions in which they are
located.
Action 4.2 did focus on the development
of new intermodal service concepts, so
called Value Added Services (VAS), for
intermodal terminals located in the
interim geographical region. First, the
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relevant terminals have been identified
based on their regional and local
importance (max. 6 terminals per country
have been considered). Next, they have
been grouped into three pre-defined
types of terminals (railway/logistics,
inland port and sea port). Afterwards, the
terminals were described in terms of
current offered and future planned
services. Hereby also future trends have
been taken into account (e.g. industrial
developments, cargo flows). Following,
the suggested VAS have been discussed
with external actors from the transportlogistics industry and public sector.
Finally, current prevailing intermodal
terminal problems have been identified,
based on which recommendations have
been formulated for being presented to
both transport-logistics industry actors
and public decision makers.
Basically there is a big difference between
core services (e.g. transhipment, storage)
and VAS. The findings of the Action 4.2
were that intermodal terminals offer
various VAS to their customers. This,
however, depends very strongly on their
core competencies and main business
areas. Railway/logistics terminals offer
different services than inland ports and
freight villages offer significantly more
services than all other types of terminals.
Today, most intermodal terminals offer
VAS for container and automotive, while
only few offer a full-range of services (=
one-stop-shop). This especially becomes
true for freight villages and sea ports,
while pure railway and logistics terminals
aim
at
optimising
their
internal
transhipment processes.
What about future VAS? In the future biofuels (bio-diesel, bio-ethanol) shall be
become an important VAS, however, this
not only in EU-Member States, but also in
the Western Balkan region. As most
railway/logistics
terminals
(esp.
in
Germany and Austria) work close to their
capacities strategic co-operations among
them become also an important aspect
for improving available services in the
intermodal terminals. Moreover, terminals
intend to become trimodal terminals,
wherever possible, as this circumstance
will attract additional enterprises settling
in or around these logistics nodes.
The activities will include a detailed
analysis of supply and demand of
intermodal
transport
services
and
integration of IT&C tools. Particular
emphasis shall be put on the major
threats and bottlenecks that have been
identified, and specific examples from
Austria will be described.
A detailed analysis on the connectivity of
selected harbours from Austria, Croatia,
Romania, and Serbia to different modes
of transportation, data on infrastructure,
capacities, and traffic through each
connection of the port, and a summary of
the improvement plans for the hinterland
connectivity of these harbours shall be
provided. Based on the above mentioned
data, a critical analysis of the deficit
between capacity and demand for each
connection of the selected harbours shall
be performed.
The objective of the action consists on the
development of strategic concepts to
improve the connectivity of selected
harbours, the threats for the liner
services, concepts to improve the speed,
the deficit of capacities, and the major
factors that might contribute to the
improvement of the transport quality by
the integration of the new EU member
states in the CADSES area.
Workpackage 4.4: “Intermodal action
plan and integration in regional
development plans”
Mr. Thomas Jerger
At present an intermodal action plan
which bases on a SWOT analyses will be
elaborated. The partners identify and
describe their country-specific strengths,
weaknesses, opportunities as well as
threats in the intermodal transport
business, categorize them according to
policy fields and give recommendations
for measures to improve the situation.
Finally the development of an intermodal
goods transport action plan for regions
involved
taking
into
account
the
requirements of regional development
plans and suggestions for integration of
intermodal
issues
in
the
regional
development plans will be made.
Workpackage 4.3: “Improvement of
hinterland connectivity of harbours”
Ms. Rita Avram
The tasks of WP 4.3 action consist on the
review of the achievements and future
actions
within
EU
member
states
regarding the improvement of the
hinterland connectivity of harbours.
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Contact Data, Facts
CONTACT GERMANY
Representative of the Lead
Partner
Mr. Prof. Sonntag
University of Applied Sciences Wildau
hsonntag@igw.tfh-wildau.de
Project Manager
Mr. Meimbresse
University of Applied Sciences Wildau
bmeimbre@igw.tfh-wildau.de
Tel: +49 3375 508-355
Fax: +49 3375 508-983
Scientific Assistant
Mr. Jerger
University of Applied Sciences Wildau
thomas.jerger@tfh-wildau.de
GVZ Development Corporation
Southwest Saxony Ltd.
Mr. Wagener
wagener@gvz-suedwestsachsen.de
EHG Ennshafen Ltd.
Mr. Mag. Steindl
c.steindl@ennshafen.at
Wiener Lokalbahnen
Mr. Retscher
gerald.retscher@wlb.at
CONTACT BULGARIA
Technical University Varna
Ms. Natalia Nikolova
natalia@dilogos.com
CONTACT CROATIA
Collegium Flumensis Polytechnic
of Rijeka
Mr. Prof. Milos
ivan.milos@veleri.hr
CONTACT ROMANIA
GSG Knape Gleissanierung GmbH
Ms. Skalska
skalska@gsg-knape.de
Ovidius University of Constanta
Mr. Prof. Mamut
emamut@univ.ovidius.ro
CONTACT AUSTRIA
CONTACT SERBIA
via donau – Österreichische
Wasserstraßengesellschaft mbH
Mr. Schilk
schilk@via-donau.org
University of Novi Sad, Faculty
of Technical Sciences
Mr. Prof. Georgijevic
georgije@uns.ns.ac.yu
Facts
The project is part-financed by the INTERREG III
B CADSES Neighbourhood Programme of the
European Union.
Budget:
1.2 Mio. € (including all European co-funding)
Duration of the project:
01 May 2006 to 30 April 2008
Homepage: www.interim-online.eu