Vlatka Stupalo

Technological and Economic Aspects of Intermodal Transport

Various trends such as globalization and the accompanying factors incited the technological and organizational development of intermodal transport. The economic deregulation of the transportation industry and transport market had a tremendous impact on the practice of intermodal transport. For intermodal transport to be sustainable it has to be efficient. The pursuit of intermodal transport development is sustainability especially from financial and environmental aspect. Therefore, intermodal terminals are to be planned and developed according to planned and accomplished sustainability. Intermodal terminal as crucial traffic infrastructure elements are designed to ensure adequate facilities for cargo handling, decreased occurrence of cargo damage, reduced transit time and have affordable dues to attract a maximum traffic flow. Benefits of intermodal transport has to be presented to transport decision makers through information, consulting, promotion, marketing and training activities and education as well.

Quantitative analysis of maritime passenger transport in Europe

Maritime passenger transport is an important form of passenger transport, both for business and pleasure, but is often neglected in scientific literature. The main goal of this paper is to emphasize the importance of maritime passenger transport in Europe. In order to identify its main features and actors, i.e. the leading European countries and ports in the maritime passenger transport, separately for cruise and non-cruise transport, a quantitative analysis was carried out based on the data gathered from Eurostat and CLIA Europe. It was concluded that the features of maritime passenger transport in two main European regions, the Mediterranean and Northern Europe, differ significantly. Therefore, the final analysis of maritime passenger transport in Europe was conducted for each region separately.