Print Email Facebook Twitter Innovations in intermodal freight transport: Lessons from Europe Title Innovations in intermodal freight transport: Lessons from Europe Author Van Binsbergen, A.J. Konings, R. Tavasszy, L.A. Van Duin, J.H.R. Faculty Civil Engineering and Geosciences Department Transport and Planning Date 2014-01-16 Abstract Over the last two decades many innovations in intermodal freight transport have been proposed to boost the market share of intermodal transport. However, only few of them have materialized. In this paper we explore why innovations in intermodal transport are difficult to realize and how barriers for their successful implementation could be overcome. Our focus is on European initiatives. We describe a number of initiatives, succeeded and not (yet) succeeded, and explore their particular strengths and weaknesses. Next, by linking the description of these initiatives to a framework of innovation adoption, we derive critical issues in the implementation of intermodal innovations. We conclude that besides substantive success factors, related to costs and benefits, there are other strategic and process related factors that play at least an equally important role in the realization of these innovations. These include the balance of power in the supply chain, and the alignment of perspectives and preferences of different stakeholders. Subject intermodal transportfreightinnovative transport conceptsinnovation management To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:40008ad1-24bf-4d2b-9e85-4ab603d5e450 Publisher TRB Source Papers of the 93th annual meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington (USA), Jan 12-16, 2014; revised paper Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type conference paper Rights (c) 2014 The Authors Files PDF 306491.pdf 1.67 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:40008ad1-24bf-4d2b-9e85-4ab603d5e450/datastream/OBJ/view