The impacts of congestion on commercial vehicle tour characteristics and costs

Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 496-506

  Figliozzi, Miguel Andres ^a  

^a Portland State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Carrier costs; City logistics; Congestion modeling; Urban freight

Indexed keywords

COMMERCIAL VEHICLES; SALES; TRAFFIC CONGESTION; TRAVEL TIME;

CARRIER COST; CITY LOGISTICS; CLASS-BASED; CONGESTION MODELS; COST STRUCTURE; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; REAL-WORLD; RELATIVE WEIGHTS; TRAVEL-TIME; URBAN FREIGHT;

COSTS;

ANALYTICAL METHOD; CONGESTION; FREIGHT TRANSPORT; LOGISTICS; NUMERICAL MODEL; TRAVEL TIME;

EID: 77949655999     PISSN: 13665545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tre.2009.04.005     Document Type: Article

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