Rail-truck multimodal freight collaboration: Truck freight carrier perspectives in the United States

Journal of Transportation Engineering

Volumn 141, Issue 11, 2015, Pages

  Guo, Yuntao ^a   Peeta, Srinivas ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Rail truck multimodal collaboration; Random parameters logit model

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; ENERGY SECURITY; MULTIMODAL TRANSPORTATION; TRUCK DRIVERS; TRUCKS;

BEHAVIORAL CHARACTERISTICS; DECISION MAKERS; FREIGHT CARRIER; HIGHWAY CONGESTION; HIGHWAY INFRASTRUCTURE; MULTIMODAL COLLABORATIONS; QUALITY CONTROL STRATEGIES; RANDOM PARAMETERS LOGIT;

TRUCK TRANSPORTATION;

CARGO; FREIGHT TRANSPORT; LOGIT ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION; TRANSPORTATION TECHNOLOGY; TRUCKING;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84944727552     PISSN: 0733947X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)TE.1943-5436.0000792     Document Type: Article

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