A spatial-economic multimodal transportation simulation model for US coastal container ports

Maritime Economics and Logistics

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 158-178

  Luo, M ^a   Grigalunas, T A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Conditional demand; Container port; Demand estimation; Multimodal transportation; Networks; Simulation; Spatial competition

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346271696     PISSN: 14792931     EISSN: 1479294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.mel.9100067     Document Type: Article

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