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    Establishing A Intermodal Freight Corridor
    (2014-10-20) Chahuruva, Marvellous; Kingsley-Jones, Tristan; Tegneman, Oliver; Wang, Linkai; Zhu, Shengda
    This research paper is inspired by some our classmate’s work and also the overall trade relation between China and Taiwan. As China’s relevant policy, many Taiwanese companies are now investing in the southwest inland cities of China. Together with the fact that China is now the biggest trading partner of Taiwan together with Taiwan’s industrial layout, it is by interest to investigate the feasibility of building a new transport service from Taiwan directly to southwest China. We focus on introducing an intermodal option to link Taipei, the capital of Taiwan, and Chengdu, the largest city in Sichuan province. Our transshipment port in this project is Xiamen, which is one of the closest ports to Taiwan in China. The main target of this report is the electronics industry and its time sensitive goods associated with these products. Certain market forces are aligned and we believe there is a potential for a profitable trade corridor to be established. Detailed studies on cost analysis, system setup choice, market analysis and overall implementations are drawn to justify our idea and choice of this trade route.
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    Rail Quality Based Index
    (2015-07-13) Wang, Linkai; Shengda, Zhu; University of Gothenburg/Graduate School; Göteborgs universitet/Graduate School
    The aim of this thesis is to establish an integrated rail quality based index to evaluate different freight wagons’ performance. All materials are collected through literature reviews and interviews. The Rail Quality Based Index (RQBI) is established in the form of cost that can represent the main quality aspects associated with freight wagons self-characteristics. The index construction includes four main components, i.e. infrastructure, energy, maintenance and noise. Each component’s cost can be calculated by applying different methods from previous studies. By comparing index value with benchmark, the RQBI can help different parties in rail freight industry to evaluate and compare their freight wagons quality performance. This research concludes costs differentiated by wagons’ characteristics and tries to represent them in an integrated index’s form. Though, due to data deficiency, validation of the index and establishment of relevant benchmarks are not fully discussed in this research, it helps to further understand quality evaluation of freight wagons and points out a new perspective of future relevant researches.