Business structures and organisation schemes in intermodal transport in Europe

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• Business structures and organisation schemes in
  intermodal transport in Europe

Joost Schafrat ECORYS The Netherlands
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Contents of presentation

• THEMIS

• Introduction Business Cases

• Description Business Cases

• Results analysis Business Cases

• Conclusion

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THEMIS

• Thematic network

• Duration April 2000 March 2004

• 13 partners

• Intelligent Transport Systems

• All modes

• Expansion to NAS (now new member
• states)

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Transport Chain Company 1
Waterborne
Air
Shared Information
Door-to-door Transport Management System
Rail
Road
Waterborne
Air
Door-to-door Transport Management System
Shared Information
Rail
Road Traffic Management system
Transport Chain Company 2
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State of the art

• Integration is still in its infancy, due to the
  following reasons
• TMS systems are limited (region, modality,
  functionality)
• Technical and operational diversity
• Reluctance to change TMS by authorities
• Different information needs
• Different data availability
• Commercial, technical and organisational aspects
  have to be solved
• But the benefits are clear reduced costs,
  efficiency, ETA, better customer service

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Business Cases
The THEMIS business cases selected are actual or
planned applications that have been selected in
order to demonstrate

• the current status and the benefits of
  integration of information exchanges between TMS
  and FTMS, TMS-TMS and FTMS-FTMS
• the needs and the great potential that exists of
  linking traffic management systems to freight
  transport management systems and between
  themselves.

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Business Cases
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Port of Hamburg
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Long Distance Corridor
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Long Distance Corridornetwork links
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Eurotunnel

• Traintunnel between England and France with mixed
  operations (freight and persons)
• Problem capacity and information exchange
• Technical and operational diversity
• Focus Set up of a structure for traffic
  planning/organisational/commercial development of
  international freight services
• Various informal and internal mechanisms for data
  exchange
• Complicating factor is the difference between a
  train and a part of the load

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Jan de Rijk

• Transport company mainly for road and air traffic
• Problem various actors with the relevant
  information (national, local, municipalities etc)
• Focus Set up of a system for including traffic
  information in freight transport management
  system
• Complicating factor is the unstandardised way of
  distributing the traffic data

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Schiphol air freight

• The Amsterdam Airport Schiphol (AAS) case is
  about the need of better ETA s of trucks to
  assist in the planning over transhipments from
  road freight to air freight.
• Extension of the existing system for
  transhipments from airfreight to road freight
• Problem difference between negotiated time and
  real time of delivery
• Focus extension of the data with time tables air
  companies, traffic data to get better trip
  planning and reducing waiting times
• During the transport process, up-to-date
  forecasts and in-route adjustments will be
  provided to assist in route choice.

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Also Danube

• Danube river network (inland waterways)
• Problem information only about bottlenecks,
  construction work on the fairway, water level
  info, water level forecast
• Focus Set up of a common source logistics data
  base or intermodal transport chains with inland
  navigation as core transport mode
• create independent logisticinformation and
  communication services
• 4 demonstrations

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D2D

• Demonstration of an integrated management and
  communication system for door-to-door intermodal
  freight transport operations 
• Problem bad exchange of information, no
  tracktrace info, no update of ETA, no transport
  chain manager etc.
• Goal is to set up a Freight Transport Monitoring
  System (FTMS) and
• a Transport Chain Management System (TCMS) to be
  used by the chain manager to organise, monitor,
  and control the intermodal chains under his
  responsibility.
• 5 different demonstrator transport chains 1
  included
• Farming equipment from Mannheim via Antwerp,
  Zeebrugge and Fremantle to final destinations in
  inland Australia (inland waterways, trucks, sea,
  trucks)

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KombiTIF

• Improvement of information exchange in Sweden to
  handle intermodal transports and to create a
  better cooperation between the Swedish transport
  agencies and force them to build bridges over the
  organisational borders.
• 3 information degrees Information that exists
  and is exchanged, information that exists but is
  not exchanged and non existing information 
• The project is looking into the possibility of
  providing a common platform for the agencies. The
  platform would have different levels
• Level 1 information from each agency,
  information that today is available on a segment
  basis must be co-ordinated to corridor based
  information that corresponds to the customers
  need.
• Level 2 information from the different agencies
  is co-ordinated to correspond to a customers
  need of information for a door-to door
  transport.
• Level 3 information from other actors is added.

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KombiTIF
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Analysis business cases

• Aspects
• Technical
• Operational
• Economic
• Organisational
• Legislative

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Technical analysis

• the analysis in the majority of the situations is
  at an early stage and therefore the technical
  specifications can only be viewed as an
  indicative basis for an end solution.
• The main challenging issue is the optimum
  interchange of useful information between the
  traffic and freight transport environments.
• Road seems more prepared for establishing open
  technical solutions.
• The rail sector functions as a closed
  environment, mainly utilizing existing
  information systems
• The waterborne sector (inland waterways in this
  case) is mainly concerned with the variety of
  actors involved

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Operational

• Time savings (less waiting time, congestion time)
  is most significant benefit.  
• The customer service can be improved in various
  levels
• Safety in operations is also a positive impact.
• The availability of traffic related information
  contributes also to the effectiveness of the
  operations
• The availability of information enables the
  transport operators to better control the
  performance of their human resources.

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Economic analysis

• It is not possible to provide quantitative data
  regarding costs and benefits. Clear examples of
  integrated systems are lacking.
• Based on the qualitative cost benefit analysis,
  in most cases there are sufficient potential
  benefits to justify a pilot project to
  investigate
• In most cases the expected revenues alone are not
  sufficient to make the project feasible. Other
  benefits for the investors have to be taken into
  account, like improving their service level,
  time-savings, improving their efficiency, etc.
• In most cases investment costs are mainly related
  to software and system development costs.
  Hardware is in most cases already available and
  adequate.
• Most expected benefits are related to efficiency
  improvements, transport cost reduction, time
  savings and service level improvements. In most
  cases also external effects are expected like
  noise reduction, improved safety or reduced
  emissions.

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Organisational/legal analysis

• For most business cases (both from the
  organisational and the legal point of view) the
  most important issues for establishing exchange
  of information are
• Confidentiality ensuring that the information
  provided is not distributed to people or
  organisations that are not allowed to share the
  information.
• Security ensuring that no unauthorised access
  to information is possible.
• Accuracy ensuring that the information is
  precise and that it is provided in a timely
  fashion.
• Other aspects to deal with are liability,
  ownership of data and quality of the data.

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Conclusion

• No blueprint for a structure or organisation
  model
• Lack of real success stories (up and running real
  life best practices)
• Still have all described cases a positive
  outcome
• Cost savings and better customer satisfaction
  substantial once systems truly integrated
• Overall, sufficient potential benefits from
  integration that would outweigh the
  disadvantages.
• Organisational and legal issues relate to
  confidentiality, security and accuracy of the
  data

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