ABSTRACT
This chapter deals with modelling the operational, economic, environmental and social performances of select transport systems. The landside area embraces the surface transport access systems connecting the airport to its catchment area and the passenger terminal system. Intermodal freight transport provides transportation of consolidated load units, such as containers, swap-bodies and semi-trailers by combining at least two different transport modes. Analyzing and modelling the full costs of a given intermodal and equivalent road transport network is based on understanding the network size, intensity of operations and technology in use, and the internal and external costs of the individual components. The transport infrastructure and services of the different and the same transport mode connect particular shipper and receiver ‘zones’. The full costs of a given intermodal and equivalent road transport network include internal and external costs. The internal costs are imposed on the operators moving load units between the shippers and receivers.
