TECHNICAL CHANGE IN CAPITAL AND ENERGY CONSERVATION IN THE CANADIAN TRUCKING INDUSTRY: AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF AN EXPERIMENT

This paper outlines, first of all, the actual empirical results obtained by various researchers when explaining the performance and the growth of the trucking industry over the last twenty-five years and then presents some preliminary results coming from the estimation of an incomplete production function. Section 2 describes a brief review of empirical research on the growth of technical progress and of multifactor productivity in the trucking industry. Section 3 discusses the results that come from estimations of an incomplete production function for 1990-1995. The first step consists of estimating an aggregate model that considers the technical progress and reduction in fuel consumption as a whole in the trucking industry. Then the data set is subdivided into three categories to take account of the different ways trucking firms served their customers. The combination of time-series and cross-section components gives estimates on the cumulative effect of technical change over the period because new vintage tractors are regularly added and because energy efficiency is improving as time goes on. Concluding remarks are in section 4.

• Corporate Authors:

  University of Saskatchewan, Canada

  Saskatoon, Saskatchewan  Canada  S7N 0W0
• Authors:
  • Boucher, M
• Conference:
  • Logistics in a Changing Global Economy. Canadian Transportation Research Forum, Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference
  • Location: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
  • Date: 1998-5-25 to 1998-5-28
• Publication Date: 1998

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 258-272

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Cross sections; Empirical methods; Energy conservation; Estimating; Financial capital; Fuel consumption; Performance; Productivity; Time series; Tractor trailer combinations; Trucking
• Geographic Terms: Canada
• Subject Areas: Energy; Environment; Freight Transportation; Highways; Motor Carriers;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00797138
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Aug 14 2000 12:00AM