The TRAIL Research School for Transport, Infrastructure and Logistics, the co-operative School for PhD research and education of Delft University of Technology and Erasmus University Rotterdam and the University of Groningen, carries out fundamental research in a diversity of areas organized in a number of coherent programmes. Each year, the progress achieved in these programmes is presented at the yearly TRAIL Congress by written papers and oral presentations of the PhD students aimed at informing a wider audience of scientists and professionals. Submitted contributions are thoroughly screened, selected, and improved with the help of an International Review Committee. The contributions included in this volume constitute the outcome of this careful process (see also Parts 2 and 3 of these Proceedings issued in separate volumes). The reported research is centred around a number of joint research programmes in which the researchers co-operate. In the multi-disciplinary programme on Automatic Vehicle Guidance (AVG) interesting contributions are given with respect to roadway capacity impacts of AVG, product liability issues of AVG, and on technology assessment of this emerging technology. The related research programme on Freight Transport Automation and Multimodality (FTAM) is represented by a series of papers covering subjects such as the design and performance of new-generation intermodal freight terminals, design of new load units and logistic concepts for short distance intermodal freight transport services. Another larger TRAIL programme concerns Seamless Multimodal Mobility (SMM) of personal travel. At the strategic level, related contributions deal with travel choice modelling, optimizing mixed public transport service networks, and design of multimodal transfer points. At the operational level of SMM, papers deal with delay modelling of trains in railway networks, with establishment of delay-robust time tables, and with the establishment of decision support systems for synchronization control of scheduled train services. In the area of road traffic flow analysis and control a number of papers tackle the important but difficult subject of modelling multiple user class traffic flow operations leading to extended theories of traffic flow. The policy analysis research stream of TRAIL is represented by a variety of contributions related to infrastructure planning and transportation decision making in the public and private domains. These partly deal with methodological issues of policy analysis and partly with substantial issues such as the consideration of safety and risk aspects in multimodal corridors, or urban development in high-speed train station areas. A final larger programme of TRAIL research represented in these proceedings with several contributions is on Logistic Systems Control. An interesting example of this. deals with time strategies in logistics. The collection of papers is a demonstration of the rapid and valuable progress made by the collective efforts of the Phd researchers. Their results constitute the bricks from which the building of knowledgement will be constructed to the benefit of science and society. (A)
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