Intermodalism: 40 Years young

Transportation Quarterly

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 87-94

  Muller, Gerhardt ^a  

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Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT; INTERNATIONAL TRADE; WATERWAY TRANSPORTATION;

INTERMODAL MARKETING COMPANIES (IMC); INTERMODALISM; LOGISTICS MANAGEMENT;

FREIGHT TRANSPORTATION;

EID: 0030230727     PISSN: 02789434     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (3)

1. There were several attempts before the Ideal X, especially in the United States. As early as the late 1920s, intermodal container services were provided by land involving rail and highway but with little success when compared with more traditional modal transportation. In 1929, Seatrain Lines introduced a new service that transported railcars between New York and Havana but gradually moved to containers in the 1960s.
2. Muller, Gerhardt, Intermodal Freight Transportation, 3rd Edition, 1995, Eno Transportation Foundation and the Intermodal Association of North America, p. 15.
3. Roughly based on an explanation of what logistics management is by the Council of Logistics Management.