Group Members

Usman Bin Shams

Muntazir Mehdi
Qazi Rehmat-Ullah
Awais Farooq
Nouman Razzaq

Intermodal
Transportation
Intermodal Transportation involves the use of

two or more modes of transportation.

Intermodal Transportation as containerization.
Types of transportation
Security.
Types of Containers

Piggy Back &

Containerization Concept

Figure 9-6
Types of Intermodal
Services

Intermodal Transportation
Advantages
Alternative ways of moving goods
Standardized handling
Reduce travel time
Avoidance of check points
Security

Intermodal Transportation
Disadvantages
Infrequent service
losses
Travel time
Illicit trade

Intermodal Transportation:
Containerization
Referred to as Container-on-Flat-

Car (COFC)
Goods are placed in a large box,
where they are untouched until
they arrive at the consignee's
unloading dock.

Advantages of
Containerization
Reduces theft,
Reduces Damage
Labour saving
Reduces Multiple handling costs
Time saving.

Intermodal Transportation:
Containerization
Land bridge concept may apply for

international
shipments where
oceans are separated by a large land mass.

Piggyback
Piggyback

transportationrefers to the
transportationof goods where
one transportationunit is
carried on the back of
something else.

Piggyback
The goods are packed in trailers and

hauled by tractors to the railway

station. At the station, the trailers are
moved onto railway flat cars and the
transport tractors, which stay behind,
be then disconnected. At destination,
tractors again haul the trailers to the
warehouses of the consignee.

Piggyback
Takes advantage of motor flexibility and

rails long haul economic advantage.

Piggyback
Trailer-on-Flat-Car (TOFC)
Over the road trailers ride in special rail

cars.

Other Examples of
Piggyback
Marine
Piggybackcan also be utilized to carry boats
on larger ships. If a small ship needs to travel
long distances but does not have the
capabilities to do so, this form of
transportation will be used or if the smaller
boats were just manufactured and need to be
transported to another location to be sold.

Other Examples of
Piggyback
Air
Similar to marinepiggybacking, some planes
need to be transported by another plane
because it would not be cost effective to move
the plane under its own power. For example,
when the Space Shuttle Atlantis was built, it
needed to bepiggybackedby a Boeing 747.

RoadRailers
The advantage of using roadrailers is their

ability to be used directly behind other freight

(or even passenger) equipment without the
use of trailer.

RoadRailers
Essentially a trailer that has been reinforced to

ride on a rail bogey and be coupled together

directly without first being placed on a rail flat
car
Saves weight and locomotive power and thus
fuel for the railroad
Special lower rates
Motor competitive transit times

RoadRailers
Reduce delivery time.
Manufacturer to dealers door step.
Near zero transit damage.