Effect of Improvement of Truck Driver Treatment on Modal Shift

貨物自動車運転者の労働条件改善時におけるモーダルシフト進展評価

Modal shift helps not only to reduce greenhouse gas but also to mitigate labor shortage problem because transportation means used in modal shift can carry more cargos with fewer people. Recently shortage of truck driver becomes more and more serious. Among various factors, problems of long work hours and low wage are significant. It can be observed that some cargos shift their routes to marine transport for retention of drivers and improvement of their treatment. The authors add new functions to the existing cargo transportation simulation system which uses generalized cost model expanded with correction terms to estimate cargo transportation route and achieved highly accurate transportation reproduction although the simulation model is precise. The new functions are driver operation scheduling, detailed truck cost evaluation, considering backhaul cargo, automatic parameter tuning and so on. With the system, the authors analyze how the improvement of truck driver treatment (pay increase and improvement of labor hours) effects on modal shift. The result shows that there is possibility of noticeable modal shift progress on large lot size cargos.

• Record URL:
  https://doi.org/10.2534/jjasnaoe.26.225
• Record URL:
  http://scholar.google.com/scholar_lookup?title=Effect%20of%20Improvement%20of%20Truck%20Driver%20Treatment%20on%20Modal%20Shift&author=H.%20Matsukura&author=T.%20Seta&author=T.%20Aratani&publication_year=2017
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• Authors:
  • Matsukura, Hiroshi
  • Seta, Takahiro
  • Aratani, Taro
• Publication Date: 2017

Language

• English
• Japanese

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; Maps; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 225-235
• Serial:
  • Journal of the Japan Society of Naval Architects and Ocean Engineers
  • Volume: 26
  • Issue Number: 0
  • Publisher: Japan Society of Naval Architects and Ocean Engineers
  • ISSN: 1880-3717
  • EISSN: 1881-1760
  • Serial URL: https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/browse/jjasnaoe/-char/en
• Publication flags:

  Open Access (libre)

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Hours of labor; Modal shift; Simulation; Truck drivers; Wages; Water transportation; Workforce
• Subject Areas: Freight Transportation; Marine Transportation; Motor Carriers; Planning and Forecasting; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01667765
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST)
• Files: TRIS, JSTAGE
• Created Date: Apr 30 2018 5:20PM