TRANSPORTATION DEREGULATION, JIT, AND INVENTORY LEVELS. IN: TRANSPORT LOGISTICS

The purpose of this paper is to empirically examine several factors which may have led to lower inventory levels in American business firms in the 1980s. A model is developed and tested of transportation deregulation and just-in-time delivery vis-a-vis inventory levels. Brief reviews are provided of air cargo, motor carrier and rail freight transportation during and just before 1980. Recent cost of regulation studies are reviewed and a formal relationship is proposed between inventory levels and deregulation. A relationship is also developed between transportation deregulation, just-in-time, and inventory levels. The paper then provides operational definitions for these three constructs and performs hypothesis tests and reports statistical results.

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• Supplemental Notes:
  • Originally published in: Logistics and Transportation Review, 1991, 27 (2), June, 99-112.
• Corporate Authors:

  Edward Elgar Publishers

  William Pratt House, 9 Dewey Court
  Northampton, MA  United States  01060-3815
• Authors:
  • Larson, P D
• Publication Date: 2002

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: p. 631-644
• Serial:
  • Classics in Transport Analysis
  • Issue Number: 5
  • Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishers

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Air cargo; Deregulation; Inventory; Just in time production; Motor carriers
• Subject Areas: Aviation; Freight Transportation; Highways; Motor Carriers; Planning and Forecasting; Railroads;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00963044
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 1840645512
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Sep 22 2003 12:00AM