Intermodal freight transportation and highway safety

Transportation Quarterly

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 97-110

  Clarke, David B ^a,b   Chatterjee, Arun ^b,c   Rutner, Stephen M ^b   Sink, Harry L ^b,d  

^a Freight Transp Intermodal Syst G

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^c NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NORTH CAROLINA A AND T STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ECONOMICS; HIGHWAY SYSTEMS; RAILROAD TRAFFIC CONTROL; SAFETY FACTOR; TRUCKS;

HIGHWAY SAFETY; INTERMODAL FREIGHT TRANSPORTATION; TRUCK VEHICLE-MILES;

FREIGHT TRANSPORTATION;

EID: 0030100681     PISSN: 02789434     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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