There is no doubt that ICT as well as tracking technologies such as RFID opened up many opportunities for carriers and shippers for
a better trade. Crainic, Gendreau, and Potvin (2009) gives an overview of different developments and current technological challenges
in Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), both in hardware and software platforms. ITS delivers precise information
in matter of seconds, hence significantly reduces the uncertainty at the terminals and for the next carriers of the loads (Crainic et al.,
2009). Most of the developments in this regard have been hardware-driven, and more efforts are still needed to model and solve
multimodal transportation planning problems under real-time information in an integrated chain (Crainic et al., 2009).