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3.3. Logistics and intermodal transport
Logistics will influence the future development of intermodal transport, and yield both
opportunities and challenges. Service requirements are the major challenge to intermodal transport.
Logistics will lead to ever-stricter service requirements and an increasing number of small
consignments (Less Than Truckloads) -- a market which intermodal transport has lost almost
completely.
However, the increasing volume of freight flows, transported over longer distances, with better
planning and co-ordination possibilities of logistics activities through ICT, could result in increased
consolidation of consignments and improvement in the relative competitiveness of intermodal options.
Therefore, in order to comply with these strict service demands and to be able to compete with
road transport, intermodal transport needs sophisticated logistics concepts, using advanced information
systems.
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