2.4 Road-Rail Integration In Freight Transportation Case Study

2.4 Road – rail integration in freight transportation
Freight is defined as any good, product, or raw material carried by a commercial means of transportation which is air, highway, rail, water, and pipelines. The management of how and where the freight moves is defined as logistics (Michigan Department of Transportation, 2015). The increasing consumer demand, congestion, and the ability of the transportation infrastructure to support such demand has cause the significant challenges due to the growing need for freight services resulting. The characteristic of commodities nowadays are different from 100 years ago. There has been an increase on transportation of finalized and semi-finalized goods which have changed the transportation habits and
The road transport makes a threat to environment from two major which are noise and air pollution. In Malaysia, most of the truck was releasing carbon monoxide even though there was PUSPAKOM who are responsible to make inspection toward road vehicle. In heath perspective, carbon monoxide reduce flow of oxygen in the bloodstream and dangerous for people who has heart disease. Road transport become disadvantage to carry heavy cargo especially for long journey, it is because the vehicle has limited weight can be carry at one time. The overload cargo can cause nonfunctional of vehicle and accident. The bad weather can influence time of shipment mostly during winter season such as heave fog and snowfalls. Heavy rain also can be a reason of traffic congestion that impact the mode reliability in operation from being arrive at destination on time. The high energy resource which is fuel has increase the cost of transportation because of arising of fuel price. Road transportation is sharing road with other vehicle like public and private vehicle. Nowadays in Malaysia, the continuous increasing of the private vehicle happen when people are choose to single occupancy vehicle rather that to using high occupancy vehicle like bus to go to work place or other destination. This congestion sometime cannot be avoid any more unless reduce the number of vehicle on vehicle. The delays are frequently
The major reason of this trend arise is the desire to minimize freight transportation cost and time spend in hauling cargoes to destination point. Malaysia should make a research study toward validation of the potential of rail-road integrated approach for freight delivery as a truly means of freight distribution in completing the sea shipment from seaports to hinterland location in