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ECONOMIC
DEVELOPMENT
Topics
Transport modes
Modal competition
Passenger or freight?
Transportation today
Transport Modes
TRANSPORT MODES
CONTD
TRANSPORT MODES
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TRANSPORT MODES
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TRANSPORT MODES
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TRANSPORT MODES
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1500 Tons
52,500 Bushels
453,600 Gallons
57.7
(865.4 for 15 barges in tow)
Hopper car
100 Tons
3,500 Bushels
30,240 Gallons
3.8
Semi-trailer truck
Post-panamax containership
VLCC
747-400F
10,000 Tons
350,000 Bushels
3,024,000 Gallons
26 Tons; 910 Bushels
7,865 Gallons
9,000 for a tanker truck
5,000 TEU
384.6
2,116
300,000 tons
2 million barrels of oil
9,330
124 tons
Fuel
Consumption
Infrastructure
Capacity
Costs
Safety
Railroad
455 ton-miles
per gallon
Trucking
105 ton-miles
per gallon
37.8 million
tons per lane
per year
Modal Competition
Infrastructure / Route
Mode
Market Area
TRANSPORTATION TODAY
Rail Transportation
17th century move material in quarries &
mines
Major role in economic development
Rail line
Resources
Servicing regional economies
Achieve territorial control
High level of economic & territorial control
Monopoly Europe
Oligopoly North America
RAIL TRANSPORTATION
CONTD
Geographical Settings of
Rail Lines
Transcontinental Lines
Penetration LinesLocal / Regional Networks
Nation A
Nation B
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Landbridges
Use the land freight as a means of transport
connection - continuity of a maritime
segment
History
Silk road (15th century)
1st modern landbridge = 1880s by
Canadian Pacific Railway : to improve
shipping time of high value Asian
commodities
Associated with intermodal transportation
Landbridges (2)
Characteristic of
landbridge
Single bill of
lading issued by
freight forwarder
that covers the
entire intermodal
journey
The goods remain
in the same
container for the
entire journey
TYPES OF LANDBRIDGES
Landbridge
the rail system is used as a link between a foreign
origin and destination. The continental mass is
simply used as a link (bridge) between two maritime
systems.
an intermodal container shipped by ocean vessel
from country A to country B, land bridges across an
entire body of land/ country/ continent, en route.
the transport mode is almost exclusively rail because
it offers a faster long distance service.
e.g., a container shipment from China to Germany, is
loaded onto a ship in China, unloads at a Los Angeles
(California) port and travels via rail transport to a
New York/New Jersey port, and loads on a ship for
Hamburg. Also see Eurasian Land Bridge.