Future intermodal transport

With future intermodal transport, you can really reduce transport costs and increase the use of the railway in an efficient way. There is no more efficient way to transport than the railway. But then you have to start thinking new and not be stuck in the old system that doesn't work at all. The big problem that has been pointed out is the terminals. We have to reduce acceptable prices to move a unit load between the modes of transport truck and rail. Think new, think again!

1. Then you get a requirement that must apply: Cheap, simple terminals that can be established in many places

2. The terminal technology should be able to scale up and down according to the current need! This makes it possible for the terminal design to follow the needs of the market.

3. Simple, inexpensive unit loads that are standardized and can be handled by all modes of transport

4. The terminal must be able to operate with 0 CO2 emissions

According to the EU, 75% of today's road transport should be shifted to rail or sea transport. Furthermore, the EU wants to ban truck transport longer than 300 km. Then the EU says that there should be terminals where there are more than 100,000 inhabitants. All in all, we have to build many terminals to meet the EU's requirements.

With today's technology and transportation, this will not work! We will not be able to meet the EU's goals.

The picture on the right shows two major errors that must be eliminated in order for us to meet future goals.

1. Requirements: 
The unit load trailer shall be replaced with skeleton trailers and containers.

1. Requirements: 
De enormt stora säck terminalerna som skapar rangering av vagnarna, därför man måste komma till ledningsfritt område för att kunna lyfta lastenheterna. Skall ersättas av genomströmmande terminaler. Med korta terminal stopp och automatiska hanteringar av lastenheter under befintlig elledning.

It is important to find solutions to the problems and it is important to be radical and allow for sweeping changes and not get stuck in the old patterns.
We would go as far as banning truck transport over 150 km and an absolute requirement that the distribution cars used should be 0 emissions in terms of CO2.

We have developed a terminal solution that is simple, efficient and automatically operating terminal unit and we call it "Myran". It is scalable in all respects and can be reduced or increased as needed. Which gives a very large variation in possible terminals. 

The cost of building a terminal is low, which means it can be applied in many places. We aim to have terminals within a maximum distance of 150 km. This means we can cover all of Sweden's transport needs with intermodal transport.

Equipment of 20 meters and longer will be outcompeted by our automatic transfer system of unit loads. The majority of the transport distance will be by rail. There is no economy to transport the goods by road.

One vehicle that will be completely out-competed is the new variant of the 34.5-meter long vehicle. It absolutely does not belong on our roads.

What will remain on the vehicle side are vehicles that can transport containers from 10 feet to 45 feet. Since the terminals are closely spaced, the vehicles can be electric and this gives a 0 CO2 emission. This means that all transport within the system will be carried out without CO2 emissions, which will really affect our environment. 

What remains to carry out the distribution are trucks that handle 20-foot containers and similar unit loads. They are electrically powered and produce no CO2 emissions.

The semi-trailer truck also remains, but in the form of a skeleton trailer, which can handle load units up to 45 feet. This equals 0 CO2 emissions, as it is powered by electric motors during its distribution. .

The result is that we have an infrastructure that is efficient and transports take place at low costs and completely without CO2 emissions. The dense terminal location means that the service level has been significantly increased for all consumers and suppliers. The system is also adapted for the future and we will not see a lot of companies leaving Sweden due to very poor and high logistics costs. The dense terminal location also enables the WHOLE COUNTRY TO LIVE!

Other positive features are that all drivers can stay at home and only carry out distribution runs. No runs are longer than 150 km. Competition from foreign drivers is also gone as it is not profitable to go to Sweden just to drive distribution routes. We have a completely different human transport structure.

We are already being left behind by the rest of Europe and we will find it difficult in Sweden to maintain our industry and to attract new investments and establishments. We simply have a completely poorly built infrastructure that will suffer from large and high transport costs in comparison to the rest of Europe. Sweden will not be a future country for industry and investments.

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