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Modelling Cross-Border Rail Intermodality In The Windsor-Essex Context, Christopher Aspila
Modelling Cross-Border Rail Intermodality In The Windsor-Essex Context, Christopher Aspila
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Shipment by truck dominates the cross-border flow of commodities in both directions between Canada and the United States (Anderson and Coates, 2010; Anderson, 2012; Anderson and Brown, 2012; and Aspila and Maoh, 2014). An individual truck typically pulling one or two trailers is an inefficient way to move goods over long distances (Eom et al., 2012) when freight trains with three or more 4400 horsepower diesel-electric locomotives pull over two-hundred intermodal containers loaded on rail cars throughout North America every day.
Windsor, Ontario is an example of a border community in Canada and hosts the busiest border crossing between Canada …