Congestion, port expansion and spatial competition for US container imports

Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1121-1136

  Fan, Lei ^b,c   Wilson, William W ^a   Dahl, Bruce ^c  

^a NDSU Dept 7610   (United States)

^b Multimech Research and Development   (United States)

^c NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Congestion; Container flow; Network flow model; Port

Indexed keywords

LOGISTICS; TRAFFIC CONGESTION;

CONGESTION; CONGESTION COSTS; CONTAINER FLOW; LOGISTICS SYSTEM; NETWORK FLOW MODEL; PORT; SPATIAL COMPETITION; WAITING TIME;

CONTAINERS;

CONTAINER SHIP; IMPORT; LOGISTICS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PORT OPERATION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TRAFFIC CONGESTION;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84862246137     PISSN: 13665545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tre.2012.04.006     Document Type: Article

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