Estimating and benchmarking Less-than-Truckload market rates

Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 667-682

  Özkaya, Evren ^a   Keskinocak, Pinar ^a   Roshan Joseph, V ^a   Weight, Ryan ^b  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b Schneider Logistics   (United States)

Author keywords

Benchmarking; Less than Truckload; Market rate models; Pricing structure

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; INDUSTRIAL PRACTICE; MODELING; PRICE DYNAMICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SERVICE SECTOR; TRANSPORTATION ECONOMICS; TRUCKING;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 77952673181     PISSN: 13665545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tre.2009.09.004     Document Type: Article

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