Group Members

Usman Bin ShamsMuntazir MehdiQazi Rehmat-UllahAwais FarooqNouman Razzaq

Intermodal TransportationIntermodal Transportation involves the use of two or more modes of transportation.Intermodal Transportation as containerization.Types of transportationSecurity.Types of Containers

Piggy Back & Containerization Concept

Figure 9-6 Types of Intermodal Services

Intermodal TransportationAdvantages

Alternative ways of moving goodsStandardized handlingReduce travel timeAvoidance of check pointsSecurity

Intermodal TransportationDisadvantages

Infrequent servicelossesTravel timeIllicit trade

Intermodal Transportation: Containerization

Referred to as Container-on-Flat-Car (COFC)

Goods are placed in a large box, where they are untouched until they arrive at the consignee's unloading dock.

.

Advantages of ContainerizationReduces theft, Reduces Damage Labour savingReduces Multiple handling costs Time saving.

Intermodal Transportation: Containerization

“Land bridge” concept may apply for international shipments where oceans are separated by a large land mass.

Piggyback

Piggyback transportation refers to the transportation of goods where one transportation unit is carried on the back of something else.

Piggyback

The goods are packed in trailers and hauled by tractors to the railway station. At the station, the trailers are moved onto railway flat cars and the transport tractors, which stay behind, be then disconnected. At destination, tractors again haul the trailers to the warehouses of the consignee.

PiggybackTakes advantage of motor flexibility and

rail’s long haul economic advantage.

PiggybackTrailer-on-Flat-Car (TOFC)Over the road trailers ride in special rail

cars.

Other Examples of Piggyback

Marine Piggyback can also be utilized to carry boats

on larger ships. If a small ship needs to travel long distances but does not have the capabilities to do so, this form of transportation will be used or if the smaller boats were just manufactured and need to be transported to another location to be sold.

Other Examples of PiggybackAir 

Similar to marine piggybacking, some planes need to be transported by another plane because it would not be cost effective to move the plane under its own power. For example, when the Space Shuttle Atlantis was built, it needed to be piggybacked by a Boeing 747.

RoadRailersThe advantage of using roadrailers is their

ability to be used directly behind other freight (or even passenger) equipment without the use of trailer.

RoadRailers

Essentially a trailer that has been reinforced to ride on a rail bogey and be coupled together directly without first being placed on a rail flat car

Saves weight and locomotive power and thus fuel for the railroad

Special lower ratesMotor competitive transit times

RoadRailers

Reduce delivery time.Manufacturer to dealer’s door step.Near zero transit damage.