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EUROPEAN INTERMODAL ASSOCIATION
It is our mission to develop, improve and promote sustainable intermodal mobility combining innovative rail, waterway, road, air and maritime transport solutions. We aim at using every mode of transport in the most optimal way by improving their links with each other (also called "co-modality").
Intermodalism
is a characteristic of a transport system, whereby at least two different modes of transport are used in an integrated way to complete a door-to-door transport chain. The intermodal concept is therefore an integral part of the global logistic chain concept.
Intermodalism
does not seek to impose any choice whatsoever as to a specific mode of transport. Instead, by improving the connections between all modes of transport and by integrating them in a system, its aim is to help to optimise the system as a whole, by relying on efficient information and communication services.
Intermodalism
thus provides a solution that goes beyond the optimisation of each individual mode of transport and seeks to optimise a global logistics chain which is not necessarily the result of each mode of transport optimised individually.
Intermodal transport - The smart transport combination
Contact:
New address :
European Intermodal Association (EIA)
Rue d’Arenberg 44
B-1000 Brussels
Route description
Tel. : +32.2.514 56 54
Fax: +32.2.514 67 60
Email:
info(at)eia-ngo.com
URL:
www.eia-ngo.com or www.intermodaltransport.org
Last update: 8 February 2008
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