The changes occurring in the nature of economic relations under the conditions of global economic globalization over the last decades have presented new requirements for the organization and management of transport processes. In models for selecting the type of multimodal corridor, the general criteria are the minimum time and minimum cost of delivering a unit of cargo. Currently, there are developed methods and technologies for organizing freight transport by individual modes of transport or their combinations [4,5].However, at the same time, a number of conflicting tasks have emerged in the organization of goods delivery via the classic chain: “producer – consolidation and cargo loading system – delivery – unloading of cargo units – user”. In this case, from the point of view of organizing the delivery of goods (cargo, production), three systemic elements clearly stand out:
− type and kind of cargo (container, packaging, packages, bulk, liquid, special or oversized), − consolidation, integration, addressing of specific types of cargo units at Transport Hubs (TH) of dispatch, − delivery of the cargo batch to the destination TH, − decomposition, deconsolidation and address distribution of the received cargo batch to the destination TH.
Each individual operation requires the selection of an integral criterion in combination with the minimum-maximum characteristics of time and cost of cargo unit delivery [2]. (…)
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Source: Logistyka Magazine 6/2011