Rail-truck multimodal freight collaboration: a statistical analysis of freight-shipper perspectives

Transportation Planning and Technology

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 484-506

  Guo, Yuntao ^a   Peeta, Srinivas ^a   Mannering, Fred ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of South Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

freight shipper perspectives; Rail truck multimodal collaboration; random parameters

Indexed keywords

ECONOMICS; INVESTMENTS; QUALITY CONTROL; SHIPS; TRANSPORTATION; TRUCK TRANSPORTATION; TRUCKS;

BEHAVIORAL CHARACTERISTICS; COLLABORATION MECHANISMS; COLLABORATION SERVICES; FREIGHT SHIPPERS; IN-TRANSIT VISIBILITIES; MULTIMODAL COLLABORATIONS; RANDOM PARAMETERS; SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL;

FREIGHT TRANSPORTATION;

FREIGHT TRANSPORT; RAILWAY TRANSPORT; SHIPPING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TRANSPORTATION PLANNING; TRUCKING;

EID: 84973902422     PISSN: 03081060     EISSN: 10290354     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03081060.2016.1174365     Document Type: Article

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