Railway and Road Container: Innovation Transport Unit to Optimize Multimodal Freightage
Journal: Vestnik of the Plekhanov Russian University of Economics
Year: 2026

Lately the volume of road haulage seriously exceeds the volume of railway carriage. At the same time road transport has lower labour productivity than railway carriage, as cargo transportation at a distance over 1,500 – 2,000km should be changed to railway transport. The article provides conceptualization and formalization of the term ‘railway and road container’ within the frames of developing innovation intermodal transport units to raise efficiency of multimodal logistic operations. The resea