Freight industry attitudes towards policies to reduce congestion

Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 55-77

  Golob, Thomas F ^a   Regan, Amelia C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of California at Irvine   (United States)

Author keywords

Attitude scales; Commercial vehicle operations; Factor analysis; Freight mobility; Goods movement; Policy analysis; Private and for hire trucking

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOBILES; COMMERCIAL VEHICLES; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; TRAFFIC CONGESTION; TRUCKS;

ATTITUDE SCALE; CALIFORNIA; FACTORS ANALYSIS; FREIGHT MOBILITIES; GOODS MOVEMENT; LOGISTIC MANAGERS; OPERATIONS MANAGERS; POLICY ANALYSIS; PRIVATE AND FOR-HIRE TRUCKING; TRUCKING COMPANIES;

FACTOR ANALYSIS;

FREIGHT TRANSPORT; TRAFFIC CONGESTION; TRANSPORTATION PLANNING;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033987030     PISSN: 13665545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1366-5545(99)00017-4     Document Type: Article

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