A CORPORATE PLANNING MODEL FOR TOFC/COFC TRAFFIC
The objectives of this paper are: 1) to specify and empirically estimate a trailer on flat car/container on flat car (TOFC/COFC) corporate planning model and 2) demonstrate how the results of the model could be used by the participants in the TOFC/COFC logistics system. In the model, intermodal trailers and containers are a function of real U.S. imports of manufactured goods, the price of TOFC/COFC service relative to the price of truckload motor carrier service, the industrial production index for all manufacturing, and the change in the trade-weighted value of the U.S. dollar. The model has a good fit and the explanatory variables have theoretically expected signs and are statistically significant. The paper also demonstrates how corporate planning staffs can combine the elasticities of the TOFC/COFC model with models of the explanatory variables to forecast and simulate total TOFC/COFC traffic.
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Supplemental Notes:
- This paper was also published in the Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Forum, October 29-31, 1998, Volume II, pp 535-554.
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Authors:
- German, H W
- Babcock, M W
- Publication Date: 2000
Language
- English
Media Info
- Features: References; Tables;
- Pagination: p. 133-146
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Serial:
- Journal of the Transportation Research Forum
- Volume: 39
- Issue Number: 2
- Publisher: Transportation Research Forum
- ISSN: 1046-1469
- Serial URL: https://trforum.org/journal-of-the-trf/
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Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Businesses; Container on flat car; Container traffic; Elasticity (Economics); Freight transportation; Intermodal transfer; Intermodal transportation; Logistics; Motor carriers; Simulation; Trailer on flat car
- Subject Areas: Economics; Freight Transportation; Highways; Motor Carriers; Planning and Forecasting; I10: Economics and Administration;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00792589
- Record Type: Publication
- Files: TRIS
- Created Date: May 14 2001 12:00AM