Multimodal transportation is an advanced form of container transportation organization.As a combi-nation of two transportation modes with the big batch,sea-rail intermodal transportation has scale and cost ad-vantages that other intermodal transportation modes cannot compare.Recently,with the continuous expansion of China railway express,sea-rail intermodal transportation has been developed rapidly in our country.How-ever,compared to developed economies with a proportion of 20%-40%in sea-rail intermodal transportation,China's less than 3%still has growth space.Herein,a summary and comment on sea-rail intermodal trans-portation from three dimensions are raised based on the"soft connection"perspective of transportation organi-zation optimization,including coordination of terminal resource allocation,cooperation of transshipment opera-tions and optimization of train operation plans.The potential research directions are proposed to provide deci-sion-making references for transportation organization optimization on sea-rail intermodal transportation.
sea-rail intermodal transportationcontainerterminal resource allocationtransshipment opera-tion coordinationtrain operation plan