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The OSIRIS concept is based upon the combination of new railway services on technical, organisational and operational level and the engagement of private rail companies.
- The approach of purchasing services for operators independent from public railways is innovative, but its realisation may take several years.
- All technical, organisational and operational activities as part of an improved intermodal transport concept should aim at a more flexible, customer-oriented and cost-attractive intermodal rail transport between the seaports and the hinterland.
- Currently and primarily the main focus is a cost reduction. The secondary focus is the reduction of transport time and an increase of quality.
- Transport services have to be designed which complement existing and successfully operated direct train connections.
- Additional terminals might be located or existing terminals might be modified in the way to bundle seaport-hinterland transports mainly on low volume relations.
- Terminals should be prepared to be equipped with new transhipment technology. The economic alternative of transhipment versus shunting should be considered very well.
- The transhipment activities of the terminals should be completed by different services such as storage, empty deport handling and others.
- Technical conditions must be examined: It is correct to doubt existing practices (e.g. operating electric locomotives only).
- In addition to the physical transport operation and its organisation, the respective information and communication (I&C) systems have to be interconnected into an integrated I&C system to guarantee the information exchange along the complete transport chain between the different parties.
- Contrary to public opinion, intermodal rail transport can also be operated cost efficiently on shorter distances than 500 km if the volumes and the frequency of transportation are high enough. Short distances up to 100 km are particularly suitable for (private) regional railway companies.
Some political, operational, organisational and technical aspects for a successful operation of the OSIRIS concept do currently not exist, at least not all over Europe. In the near future, this situation might change considerably on political level and hence the basic conditions will exist and the OSIRIS concept might be proven in practice. In the present situation, a first realisation might be successful for seaport-hinterland-connections. Here the quantities of standardised units are given necessary for new kinds of bundling. In a next step, the extension towards other fields within intermodal transport should be developed(door-to-door, continental transports, trailers/ swap bodies).
Transport demand
Since there almost no official statistics available for the specific intermodal transport market, a time-consuming collection of data and information was necessary to construct the flow matrix used. For the forecasting of the future flow matrix, specific methods and models are used. The development of these two flow matrices, for the year 1996 and for the year 2000, performs the main result of this task
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