Intermodal Terminal Location - Criteria Evaluation

Violeta Roso*, Nikolina Brnjac and Borna Abramovic

*Chalmers University of Technology, Division of Logistics and Transportation, 412 96, Gothenburg, Sweden
violeta.roso@chalmers.se

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate criteria used for determination of suitable locations for intermodal terminals. In compliance with the European traffic policy and efficient
functioning of intermodal transport, location criteria were formed and evaluated: legislative, environmental, cargo flows, spatial, technical–technological and organizational. Each
criterion is divided further into sub-criteria and evaluated with the Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) method.

Goods flow
Spatial
Technical and technological
Organizational

The criteria for defining the network of intermodal terminals and their efficiency in the processes have great impact on the
quality of the entire process of intermodal transport. The results show that the criterion of goods flows has the most significant
impact on the selection of the terminal location, followed by spatial criterion.