AN INVENTORY THEORETIC MODEL OF FREIGHT TRANSPORT DEMAND. IN: TRANSPORT LOGISTICS

This paper explains a model that is a choice if transport made by shippers, as well as their total demand for transportation services. The choice of the mode is shown to involve a trade-off among freight rates, speed, dependability and enroute loss. The paper provides a simplified model which seeks to describe the essentials of the economic foundations of freight shipment decisions.

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• Supplemental Notes:
  • Originally published in: Management Science, 1970, 16 (7), March, 413-21.
• Corporate Authors:

  Edward Elgar Publishers

  William Pratt House, 9 Dewey Court
  Northampton, MA  United States  01060-3815
• Authors:
  • Baumol, W J
  • Vinod, H D
• Publication Date: 2002

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References;
• Pagination: p. 155-163
• Serial:
  • Classics in Transport Analysis
  • Issue Number: 5
  • Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishers

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Decision making; Freight transportation; Inventory control; Logistics; Mode choice
• Subject Areas: Freight Transportation; Highways; Planning and Forecasting;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00962987
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 1840645512
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Sep 11 2003 12:00AM