How different is carrier choice for third party logistics companies?

Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 764-774

  Patterson, Zachary ^a   Ewing, Gordon O ^b   Haider, Murtaza ^c  

^a Urban and Transportation Data Division   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Freight modeling; Mode choice modeling; Third party logistics companies

Indexed keywords

SHIPS;

CHOICE MODEL; FREIGHT MODELING; LOGISTICS COMPANY; MODE CHOICE MODELS; THIRD PARTY LOGISTIC COMPANY; THIRD-PARTY LOGISTICS;

OUTSOURCING;

LOGISTICS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PLANNING METHOD; SAMPLING BIAS; SHIPPING; TRANSPORTATION PLANNING;

EID: 77952669531     PISSN: 13665545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tre.2010.01.005     Document Type: Article

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