DIOMIS

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Workshop 5, Vienna March 25 2010, Growing Intermodal Traffic in CEEC CountriesWorkshop 4, 10 March 2009, Conference on combined transport in Europe and in the United StatesWorkshop 3, April 17 2008: conference debate on Agenda 2015 for combined transportWorkshop 2 : « Impact on Infrastructure of the Growth of Domestic Combined Transport »Workshop 1 : « How can capacity utilisation be optimised (...)

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Improving the use of available train length
Issue:
The available train length could often be better used. According to the experience of KombiConsult and Kessel+Partner (K+P), non-optimum use of maximum train capacity is due to technical parameters but also to poor operational capacity management. As far as this issue is concerned, it has to be borne in mind that capacity management is influenced by the contractual relationship (...)

DIOMIS: Developing Infrastructure use and Operating Models for Intermodal Shift.
In its 2001 White Paper, the European Commission mentions a 38% rise in the European domestic freight market (all transport modes included) over the next ten years. It predicts a rail freight market share of 15% in the year 2020 and therefore expects the rail mode to play a significant part in the modal shift needed to sustain the mobility, the environment and the competitiveness of the European economy.
This (...)