@article{ref1,
title="A bi-objective model for planning and managing rail-truck intermodal transportation of hazardous materials",
journal="Transportation research part E: logistics and transportation review",
year="2012",
author="Verma, Manish and Verter, Vedat and Zufferey, Nicolas",
volume="48",
number="1",
pages="132-149",
abstract="We propose a bi-objective optimization framework for routing rail-truck intermodal shipments with hazardous materials, when shippers and receivers have access to alternate intermodal terminals. A tabu-search based solution methodology is developed, which together with the optimization framework is applied to realistic size problem instances to gain managerial insights. Our analysis indicates that drayage accounts for a significant portion of transport risk and that it can be reduced by scheduling direct and faster trains; and, that the mix of intermodal trains depends on the interest of the decision-makers, where the resulting traffic can facilitate planning emergency response systems.<p />",
language="en",
issn="1366-5545",
doi="10.1016/j.tre.2011.06.001",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tre.2011.06.001"
}