On-Off Terminal Ship-to-Rail Transfer

The intermodal situation of U.S. ports is still evolving, and port planners will be facing difficult decisions regarding IM Configurations. This article was intended to assist 'perplexed' port planners in summarized, thus, by a decision tree, which captures the conceptual structure of the subject, especially the subtle interaction between the tail clipping and substitution effects as illustrated by the M/S and M/A indices.