FREIGHT OPERATORS REQUIREMENTS FOR INFRA-STRUCTURE PLANS --FREIGHT. PROCEEDINGS OF SEMINAR G, HELD AT THE PTRC SUMMER ANNUAL MEETING, BATH UNIV. ENGLAND 7-11 SEPTEMBER 1987, VOLUME P294

A comprehensive and reliable transport network is needed by British industry if it is to compete effectively. Efficient freight transport is critical for industrial success. Improvements in transport management and vehicle productivity must be accompanied by improvements in the nation's infrastructure if efficiency is to be maximised. A choice of modes is needed to accomodate the spectrum of loads to be moved, and to provide effective competition. This notwithstanding, most companies now choose to send their freight by road. But there are still many gaps in the road network; physical gaps, overloaded sections, and sections suffering from major reconstruction when full of traffic. Industry depends on roads for a reliable and predictable level of service. Siberian weather conditions earlier this year brought the economy to a halt, and further underlined the need to devote sufficient resources to keep roads reliable. Evaluating the real benefits of roads and facilities to users is a difficult business which has not yet been mastered. There are special considerations relating to the use of lorries to be taken into account when deciding whether or not to build a road as a single or dual carriageway.(a) for the covering abstract of the seminar see IRRD 816301.

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• Authors:
  • Turner, R
• Publication Date: 1987

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 1-10
• Serial:
  • Publication of: PTRC EDUCATION & RESEARCH SERVICES LIMITED
  • Publisher: PTRC Education and Research Services Limited
  • ISSN: 0266-4569

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Arterial highways; Competition; Conferences; Demand; Economic efficiency; Freeways; Freight transportation; Improvements; Investments; Level of service; Networks; Roads; Transportation modes; Trucks; Winter; Winter maintenance
• Uncontrolled Terms: Efficiency; Road networks
• Geographic Terms: United Kingdom
• Subject Areas: Economics; Freight Transportation; Highways; Motor Carriers;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00483094
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport and Road Research Laboratory (TRRL)
• ISBN: 0-86050-175-2
• Files: ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: May 31 1989 12:00AM