An Experimental Economics Investigation of Shipper-carrier Interactions in the Choice of Mode and Shipment Size in Freight Transport

Networks and Spatial Economics

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 509-532

  Holguín Veras, Jose ^a   Xu, Ning ^b   de Jong, Gerard ^c   Maurer, Hedi ^d  

^a RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Northwest Airlines   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^d NEA Transport Research and Training   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Experimental economics; Freight mode choice; Game theory; Shipper carrier interactions

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053979406     PISSN: 1566113X     EISSN: 15729427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11067-009-9107-x     Document Type: Article

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