IMPACT OF INNOVATION ON THE SUPPLY OF FREIGHT TRANSPORT
Improvements in freight transport services will come less from the application of novel techniques (except perhaps for the application of material-flow methods to urban goods traffic) than from adapting the techniques and organization of existing sub-systems. In sea transport the size of ships will increase particularly for bulk transport, and the limiting factor will be the cost of infrastructural adaptation to harbors and their approaches. The cost of adapting ports to receive bigger ships will lead to greater concentration in the use of a small number of ports for certain goods. The importance of mixed goods transport will increase. the organization of the freight transport system will lead to increased use of electronic data processing equipment.
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Supplemental Notes:
- Presented at the European Conference of Ministers of Transport 5th International Symposium on Theory and Practice in Transport Economics: "Transport in the 1980-1990 Decade", Athens, Greece, Oct. 1973.
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Corporate Authors:
European Conference of Ministers of Transport
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Authors:
- Leutzbach, W
- Conference:
- Publication Date: 1974
Media Info
- Pagination: p. 1-67
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Automation; Bulk cargo terminals; Costs; Development; Economics; Freight traffic; Freight transportation; Harbors; Information processing; Information storage and retrieval systems; Innovation; Port operations; Ports; Transportation; Transportation planning; Urban transportation; Water transportation
- Old TRIS Terms: Harbor facilities
- Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Economics; Planning and Forecasting; Society; Terminals and Facilities; Transportation (General);
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00057747
- Record Type: Publication
- Source Agency: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
- Report/Paper Numbers: Vol. 1 Conf. Proc
- Files: TRIS
- Created Date: Oct 22 1974 12:00AM