The Effect of Hopper-type Container for Through Transit

호퍼형 일관수송용기 도입 효과

  • 김경태 (한국철도기술연구원, 물류표준화연구단) ;
  • 김영주 (한국철도기술연구원, 물류표준화연구단) ;
  • 이석 (한국철도기술연구원, 물류표준화연구단) ;
  • 권용장 (한국철도기술연구원, 교통물류연구실)
  • Published : 2011.05.26

Abstract

There are many exclusive freight cars in railway freight transportation system. Gondola is one kind of freight cars. Gondolas have a role to carry bulk-type cargo such as coals and ores. A few problems are occurring due to exclusive freight cars. Operation company has redundant freight cars because exclusive freight cars can carry limited items. And purchasing cost of freight cars is higher and higher because of irregular bid. Operation efficiency of gondola is very low because return time of gondola is much longer than that of container car. In this study, we analysed the introduction effect of hopper-type container for through transit. First, we identified the characteristics of spatial distribution on freight stations. And we provided the effect of hopper-type container in terms of operation efficiency, cost reduction, new demand excavation and image enhancement of eco-friendly railroad.

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