Intermodal network design for freight transportation in Belgium - location of rail/road and road/inland waterway terminals

In the recent years, growing concerns about environmental, societal and economic issues have emerged in the society. The improvement and the expansion of the multimodal network is one way of solving those kinds of problems. The objective of this work is therefore the integration of inland waterway, rail and road transport into the linear modeling of intermodal terminal location problems, based on transportation costs functions which are nonlinear with the distance traveled. The model should also take into account the capacity constraints linked to the different modes of transport.