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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  https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000544443
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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
• 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/
• Publication flags:

  Open Access (libre)

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