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Showing 1 to 20 of 93 for “"Trucking"”.
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Decarbonizing Long-haul Trucking
… for this development is the heavy-duty trucking sector. Heavy-duty freight trucks are responsible for approximately 30 % of the highway transportation emissions even though they only represent about 5.5 % of vehicles on the road. Heavy-duty trucks are also the backbone of US freight, as …
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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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Trucking: novel spot-market dispatching models
<p>Trucking industry, the business of transporting products via trucks, is vital to the health of our economy for the sheer number of people it employs, the value of product it hauls, and the diversity of dispatching models it uses. One of these dispatching models is the spot dispatching. This form …
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Carrier strategies in the spot trucking market
How an owner-operator chooses a specific load is a relatively unstudied field in transportation literature. Stakeholders in the decisions, such as freight brokers, stand to benefit from a better understanding of the selection process. Using load board data from a freight brokerage, we identified …
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An assessment of U.S.-Mexico cross-border trucking
… selected public policy issues in cross-border trucking to Mexico are addressed. Finally, this study attempts to ascertain the reasons why those trucking firms not involved in cross-border trade to and from Mexico have excluded themselves from this growing market.
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Strategies for cost reduction in procuring trucking services
This thesis analyzed truckload shipment transactions from 2006 to 2008 in order to compare planned procurement activity to actual procurement activity. The research specifically focused on three costs: Primary, Actual and Market. Primary cost is the cost agreed to pay to the primary carrier and is …
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Predicting on-time delivery in the trucking industry
On-time delivery is a key metric in the trucking segment of the transportation industry. If on-time delivery can be predicted, more effective resource allocation can be achieved. This research focuses on building a predictive analytics model, specifically logistic regression, given a historical …
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Impact of regulation on trucking carrier prices and capacity
… analyzes the impact on prices and capacity of trucking industry due to the introduction of ELD mandate. This mandate requires truck drivers to record their working hours in a specified electronic device instead of a pen and paper method. This thesis utilizes the change in average truck driver …
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Economic Regulation of the Motor Trucking Industry by the States
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Towards understanding the impacts of congestion pricing on urban trucking
Understanding policy impacts on freight is essential for planners who have overlooked this transport group in the past and must evaluate new congestion alleviation policies with respect to regional economic and social goals. Since urban areas are limited in infrastructure expansion and travel …
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Multi-stop trucking : a study on cost and carrier acceptance
Multi-stop truckload has been gaining importance in recent years as part of a shift away from Less-than-truckload freight. In our research, we sought to understand how the price and carrier behavior vary as the number of stops increases. Rational economic theory says that these shipments will be …
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Productivity and competition in the U.S. trucking industry since deregulation
… the Motor Carrier Act, substantially liberating trucking carriers from a federal regulatory structure that had exercised broad economic control over the industry for over four decades. Changes in the industry were swift and extensive. This thesis returns to the transformational period …
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Algorithms for bundling and pricing trucking services: Deterministic and stochastic approaches
<p>Bundling and pricing trucking services is an important strategic decision for carriers. This is helpful when they consider the incorporation of new businesses to their networks, look for economic and optimal operations, and develop revenue management strategies. Reverse combinatorial auctions …
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Relationship between price and performance : an analysis of the US trucking market
… of the carrier-shipper relationships in the US trucking market. It uses data provided by a leading third party logistics (3PL) company to explore and determine whether a relationship exists between the prices charged by the carriers and the performance that they provide to the shippers. The …
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Assessing the impact of regulation and deregulation on the rail and trucking industries
… bankrupted many small carriers in the trucking industry. Larger trucking carriers gained market dominance. Real wages in the trucking industry fell. The size of the railroad labour force decreased while railroad wages remained stagnant. Based on numerous pre-deregulation indicators …
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Trucking country : food politics and the transformation of rural life in Postwar America
Trucking replaced railroads as the primary link between rural producers and urban consumers in the mid-twentieth century. With this technological change came a fundamental transformation of the defining features of rural life after World War II. Trucking helped drive the shift from a New Deal-era …
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The effect of the Teamsters Union on small trucking firms in the Boston area
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Industrial Management, 1959.
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Economies of scale and scope in multiproduct industries : a case study of the regulated U.S. trucking industry
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil Engineering, 1982.
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A Computer Simulation Model for Predicting the Impacts of Log Truck Turn-Time on Timber Harvesting System Productivity
… represent a logging contractor's harvesting and trucking system of wood delivery from the contractor's in-woods landing to the receiving mill. The Log Trucking System Simulation model (LTSS) focuses on the impacts to logging contractors as changes in truck turn times cause an imbalance between …
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