Short Sea Shipping in the Age of Sustainable Development and Information Technology (Hardcover, 1)

Foreword Part I ? Short Sea Shipping Policies, infrastructure and Equipment 1. European policies for intermodality and Short Sea Shipping 2. Ro-Ro ships and dedicated Short Sea Shipping port terminals Part II ? Quantitative Methods for Short Sea Shipping 3. Ro-Ro ship and fleet sizing in intermodal transportation 4. Sustainability in Short Sea Shipping based intermodal transport chains 5. Simulating Ro-Ro ship operations in the context of supply chains 6. Multi-criteria decision method applied to Motorways of the Seas 7. The economic impact of tourism on the Motorway of the Sea Nantes Part III ? Regional Studies on Short Sea Shipping 8. Ro-Ro Short Sea Shipping and Motorways of the Sea: Evolutionary patterns of road hauliers’ operating strategies 9. The competitiveness of Motorways of the Sea: a case study in Italy 10. The cost of modal shift: the case of Greece 11. Short Sea Shipping in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations 12. Short Sea Shipping in Latin America - Analysis of the current logistics systems Part IV ? Information and Communications Technology in support of SSS 13. Short Sea Shipping in the Age of Information and Communications Technology