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Terminology

Terminal

inland (hinterland) container terminal

A facility where cargo containers are handled between different transport vehicles for onward transportation. The handling of containers is typically between barges or cargo trains and land vehicles (trucks).

  • Region: An area defined by specific parameters. Usually geographical division. (Oberrhein, Mittelrhein, Niederrhein) / (Rhein-Neckar, Rhein-Main). Contargo uses three regions among other things to assign and store the CO₂-parameter of our barge fleet.

Seaport

Location on a coast where sea vessels and barges can dock and transfer cargo from or to land. Container seaports handle cargo in containers by different mechanical means. (crane, AGV, reach stacker)

Connections

This shows the possibilities to connect a seaport and an inland terminal. Different and multiple connections are possible. For example barge or rail or both.

  • Barge-Diesel-km: The kilometers traveled on the barge route by use of diesel fuel.
  • Rail-Diesel-km: The kilometers traveled on the train route by use of diesel fuel.
  • Electrical-km: The kilometers on the train route traveled by use of electricity only.
  • Subconnections: Subconnections model parts of connections. Those parts are only relevant if it is a connection of type Barge-Rail.

Static Addresses

A static address is a city with its corresponding postal code and country. For example 68159 Mannheim, Germany.

Route types

  • Barge: Transport of goods / cargo on barge. Barge transport only happens between seaports and inland terminals or between inland terminals that are connected by a major river or canals.
  • Rail: Transport of goods / cargo between seaports and inland terminals on a freight train using rail roads.
  • Barge-Rail: Combined transport of goods / cargo between seaports and inland terminals on barge using major rivers or canals and on freight train using rail roads.
  • Truck: Transport of goods / cargo from and to seaports and inland terminals and the loading / unloading site.

Route Combination

  • Waterway: Transport per barge between seaport and inland terminal and additional transport per truck to the loading / unloading site.
  • Railway: Transport per rail between seaport and inland terminal and additional transport per truck to the loading / unloading site.
  • Waterway-Rail: Combined transport per barge and rail between seaport and inland terminal and additional transport per truck to loading / unloading site.
  • Direct Truck: Transport only per truck from or to the seaport and the loading site.
  • Roundtrip: Waterway, Railway, Waterway-Rail or Direct Truck transport from seaport to loading / unloading site and back to seaports.
  • All: A list of all the possibilities for transport for a given loading site.

Route Revision

A Route Revision gives the possibility to override the calculated distances between a geolocation and a terminal given by OSRM. It is defined by a Geolocation, the responsible terminal, a radius and the three distances that would replace the distances provided by OSRM - Truckdistance Oneway, Tolldistance Oneway, Airline Distance.

Example

  1. A Route Revision exists with Terminal Mannheim, geolocation 49.451369,8.1030178 and radius 100m.
  2. There is a routing between the Terminal Mannheim and the geolocation 49.451367,8.1030177.
  3. The Routing Geolocation is in the radius of the Route Revision, so the distances defined are used.

If a destination is in more than one radius of different Route Revisions, than the nearest (calculated by the air line distance) will override the values described above.