Intermodal Freight Terminals

A Life Cycle Governance Framework

Jason Monios, Rickard Bergqvist

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2016
• eBook ISBN: 9781317114543
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Local & Regional Planning Public Policy
• Index: Politics & International Relations

Much work has been done on port governance yet little has addressed intermodal terminal governance, despite the clear similarities. This book fills that gap by establishing a governance framework for situating analysis of intermodal terminals throughout their life cycle. A version of the product life cycle theory is amended with governance theory to produce a framework covering each stage of the terminal's life cycle, from the initial planning to the many decisions taken regarding the public/private split in funding mechanisms, ownership, selecting an operator, specifying KPIs to the operator, setting fees, earning profit, ensuring fair access to all rail service operators, and finally to reconcessioning the terminal to a new operator, managing the handover and maintaining the terminal throughout its life cycle. An institutional analysis of stakeholder relations, situated within a governance framework, illuminates these issues and enables not only conceptualisation and greater understanding of the geography of intermodal transport, but also decision-making and goal-setting by planners and policy makers. This book thus has three functions: first, as a textbook on the planning and operation of intermodal terminals; second, as a presentation of recent empirical research on intermodal terminal governance; third, as a framework for future research in which the broad field of analysis of intermodal transport can be viewed through a single lens and used to inform geographers, policymakers and planners.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Epigraph
• Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• List of Boxes
• Acknowledgements
• List of Abbreviations
• Preface
• 1 Introduction
• 2 The Role of the Terminal in Intermodal Transport Networks
• 3 Life Cycle Theory and the Governance of Intermodal Transport
• 4 Life Cycle Phase One: Planning, Funding and Development
• 5 Life Cycle Phase Two: Finding an Operator
• 6 Life Cycle Phase Three: Operations and Contracts
• 7 Life Cycle Phase Four: Terminals over Time
• 8 A Governance Framework for the Intermodal Terminal Life Cycle
• 9 Geographies of Governance: Planning, Policy and Politics
• References
• Index