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Freight transportation modeling, planning, and logistics.
Title:
Freight transportation modeling, planning, and logistics.
Author:
National Research Council (U.S.). Transportation Research Board
ISBN:
9780309160377
Publication Information:
Washington, D.C. : Transportation Research Board, 2010.
Physical Description:
vii, 145 p. : ill., maps ; 28 cm.
Series:
Transportation research record, no. 2168.

Transportation research record ; 2168.
General Note:
"A peer-reviewed publication of the Transportation Research Board."
Abstract:
"This issue contains 16 papers concerned with freight transportation modeling, planning, and logistics. Specific topics discussed are as follows: the discrete berth-scheduling problem; multimodal network analysis and vulnerability assessment; location choice model for logistic firms; agent-based combined traffic simulation of private cars and commercial vehicles; shipper willingness to pay to increase environmental performance in freight transportation; inland freight transport modal choice; port hinterland for networks of intermodal freight transportation; online inventory routing systems under demand surges; transport and logistics demand; identifying and characterizing truck bottlenecks; cost impact of freight bottlenecks on the trucking industry; estimating the impact of congestion on freight; algorithms to quantify the impact of congestion on urban freight distribution networks; exclusive truck facilities; building resilience into freight transportation systems; and fuel ethanol transportation activity and potential distribution constraints."--pub. desc.
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