ANALYSIS OF THE POSSIBILITIES TO RATIONALIZE THE GOODS DISTRIBUTION THROUGH CO-ORDINATION. SUMMARY OF THE VART PROJECT

ANALYS AV MOEJLIGHETERNA ATT GENOM SAMORDNING RATIONALISERA VARUDISTRIBUTIONEN. SAMMANFATTNING AV VART-PROJEKTET

This project, the Vart project, has shown that it is possible to reduce the transportation costs through co-ordination of goods distribution in urban areas. The co-ordination concept proposed, involving collection by routes and delivery by routes with interlaying transfer terminals, is well-known and is already being applied to a certain extent, although in most cases it is underdeveloped. Since both buyers and sellers of transportation services would benefit from co-ordinated goods distribution, it is judged that market forces will influence development in the direction of more rational distribution. In this case, society can actively contribute to the kind of development desired by informing the parties concerned and also by ensuring in its planning that suitable sites for transfer terminals are available. Society should itself find co-ordinated goods distribution to be in its own interest since it also has great social economic value, offering as it does less traffic, less congestion, less noise, less pollution from exhaust fumes, fewer accidents and reduced energy consumption

• Corporate Authors:

  VBB

  P.O. Box 5038
  Stockholm,   Sweden 
• Authors:
  • Taflin, L F
  • PERSSON, T
  • Hultenberger, P
• Publication Date: 1982-2

Language

• Swedish

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 37 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Benefit cost analysis; Carriers; Commodities; Delivery service; Delivery vehicles; Economic factors; Economics; Freight terminals; Freight traffic; Freight transportation; Itinerary; Networks; Physical distribution; Ton miles; Transportation; Urban goods movement
• Uncontrolled Terms: Terminus; Transportation networks
• Geographic Terms: Sweden
• Old TRIS Terms: Distribution costs
• ITRD Terms: 226: Cost benefit analysis; 1234: Delivery vehicle; 255: Economics; 263: Economics of transport; 283: Freight; 741: Goods traffic; 699: Itinerary; 1124: Line (transp); 1054: Network (traffic); 1074: Terminus; 293: Ton mile
• Subject Areas: Economics; Planning and Forecasting; Society; Transportation (General); I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00370877
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute (VTI)
• Report/Paper Numbers: Monograph
• Files: ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: Mar 31 1983 12:00AM