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Showing 1 to 20 of 134 for “"Transportation costs"”.
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Transportation Costs And Economic Development
… with particular focus on the importance of transportation costs. Specifically, I study the importance of idiosyncratic transportation costs and economic development via three different angles. In Chapter 1, I study how idiosyncratic transportation frictions as labor mobility barriers affect …
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Public and private transportation: costs of various mixes
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of City and Regional Planning, 1964.
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Reducing transportation costs and inventory shrinkage in the Washington State tree fruit industry
… and 0.02 per box. These results confirm that the costs and foregone revenue associated with inventory management are significant and merit the tree fruit industry's attention.
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Modeling the impact of complexity on transportation
… thesis aimed to understand the drivers of total transportation costs during supply chain complexity events, in particular new product launches, in a fast moving consumer goods company in the United States. The research specifically investigated which of the four key transportation cost drivers …
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Mobile phones and market participation among smallholder farmers in the Bolivian altiplano
… at a greater distance to market (or with higher transportation costs) are more self-sufficient than households closer to the market (or with lower transportation costs). One promising theory on why self-sufficiency increases faster than transportation costs is that the markets are volatile and …
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Impact of risk sharing on competitive bidding in truckload transportation
… surcharge (FSC) program affected its per-load transportation costs in the United States full-truckload (TL) transportation industry. In this study, we restricted transportation costs to line-haul charges and fuel surcharge premiums. Using ordinary least squares (OLS) regression, we examined the …
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Strategy for direct to store delivery
… tries to understand and evaluate the impact on transportation and safety stock when a manufacturer transitions from a 100% DC delivery method to 100% Direct-To-Store (DTS) method. Drawing on the results of a case study on Niagara bottling, a leading private brand water bottle manufacturer in US, …
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Choosing transportation alternatives for highly perishable goods : a case study on nuclear medicine
… and shipping constraints may reduce the total costs. This thesis recommends a new approach to making alternative selections, leading to total cost reductions. This project was conducted with three goals in mind in partnership with a Fortune 500 healthcare company. First, it serves to develop a …
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The impact of tariffs and transport costs on Latin America's wood exports to the United States
… of the most important barriers are tariffs and transportation costs. This study uses the effective protective rate approach and empirically estimates the level of effective protection afforded American producers of five solid wood products from Latin American imports by tariffs and …
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School choice : a discrete optimization approach
… resources, family and neighborhood cohesion, and transportation costs. Facing this intricate optimization problem, school districts often utilize to stable-matching techniques which only produce stable matchings that do not incorporate these different objectives; this can be expensive and …
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Cross-Docking: A Proven LTL Technique to Help Suppliers Minimize Products' Unit Costs Delivered to the Final Customers
… tool to reduce the total supply chain costs (TSCC) consisting of two separate and independent objective functions including total transportation costs (TTC) and total cross-docking operating cost (TCDC). The full-truckload (FT) transportation mode is assumed to handle supplier→customer …
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Price Dynamics and Spatial Market Structure for Three U.S. Southern Pine Timber Products
… (i.e., firms set price equal marginal cost plus transportation costs). Competitive arbitrage is the error correction mechanism assumed through which spatial markets are linked. This conclusion could be misleading. In the presence of significant intra-regional transportation costs between …
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An analysis of the funding of public school transportation in North Carolina
… of this study was (1) to examine the pupil transportation program in North Carolina relative to those used in the fifty states, (2) to examine variations in pupil transportation costs among North Carolina’s school districts, (3) to identify factors related to variations in per pupil …
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Going the Distance: The Impact of Distance to Market on Smallholders Crop and Technology Choices
… Central America contend with poor roads and high transportation costs when making production decisions. Farmers select crop activities based on cost, revenue and profit but are constrained by labor requirements, cash requirements, food security concerns, and input and output market access. Market …
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Feasibility and cost analysis of private aircraft transportation for the University of North Dakota
… to determine the feasibility of private aircraft transportation for the University of North Dakota and analyze the costs involved.</p> <p>Safety of private aircraft transportation is discussed with emphasis on the added safety of flying in North Dakota. This additional safety factor is attributed …
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Ship-Pack Optimization to Minimize Fulfillment Costs from Manufacturing to Customer
… distribution system. Cost elements including transportation costs between manufacturing and distribution, transportation costs between distribution and customer, distribution center labor costs, and distribution box costs are all influenced by the ship-pack size from manufacturing to …
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Distribution network reconfiguration for an apparel manufacturer : an inventory analysis
… In addition, there are differences in labor and transportation costs between the two regions. The company would like to understand the financial, operational, and service impacts associated with consolidation. This study uses a total logistics system approach with particular focus on inventory. …
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Forecasting short term trucking rates
Transportation costs constitute an important part of total logistics costs and have a dramatic impact on all kinds of decisions across the supply chain. Accurate estimation of transportation costs can help shippers make better decisions when planning transportation budgets and can help carriers …
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The Impact of Unit Train Rates Upon Spatial Price Differentials for Corn
… system is a complex of many activities in which transportation plays an important role. Transportation is not only an important physical function, but it also has an important role in price relationships, since prices at the numerous points comprising the grain market are linked by transportation …
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Certain significant characteristics of various sizes of California school districts for the fiscal year 1950-1951
… of average daily attendance, (3) the average transportation costs per unit of average daily attendance, and (4) the average district tax rates.
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