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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"trucking industry"”.
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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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Economic Regulation of the Motor Trucking Industry by the States
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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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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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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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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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Driving the Future of Long-Haul Trucking: Realizing the Potential of Battery Electric Vehicles through an Analysis of Financial and Environmental Impacts
… battery electric vehicles (BEVs) for long-haul trucking, using system dynamics modeling, financial impact modeling, and environmental impact modeling, and looks across a broad range of possible future scenarios that could impact the viability of BEV use in long-haul trucks. System dynamics …
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Optimizing empty container repositioning in a truck-rail intermodal network
… imbalance of freight moved by the transportation industry requires repositioning of empty containers. Empty container repositioning (ECR) describes the strategy for empty container relocation to reduce cost and satisfy demand. ECR costs the transportation industry billions of dollars per year …
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Optimization tools for the freight brokerage industry
The freight brokerage industry in North America was born of the deregulation of the trucking industry in 1982. In the two decades since, the industry has grown from nothing to $50 Billion in revenue. In the beginning, freight brokers used T-card systems to record, track, and bill orders. Technology …
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PRECARIOUS WORK EXPERIENCES OF IMMIGRANT TRUCKERS: LABOR PROCESS, NETWORKS, AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP
… enter low-wage jobs, and then shift to the trucking industry. This shift brings a significant upward mobility for them. This discussion explains how the socio-economic cleavages within the immigrant community both conform to and challenge the dynamics of immigrant-dominated sectors. …
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Quantifying the impact of deployment practices on interplant freight volatility
… transportation is getting stronger. However, the trucking industry is not ready to take on this growth in volume due to a shortage of truck drivers. From a shipper's perspective, availability of transportation is an important concern that needs to be addressed to ensure customer satisfaction, …
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Design of robust active trailer steering controllers for multi-trailer articulated heavy vehicles using software/hardware-in-the-loop real-time simulations
… (MTAHVs) have been frequently adopted by the trucking industry. Despite the above advantages, MTAHVs exhibit two particular challenges concerning road safety. MTAHVs exhibit poor maneuverability at low speeds and low lateral stability at high speeds. To address these issues, an Active Trailer …
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Profit Based Simulation Model for The Rail Transportation Industry
… often conflict in the rail transportation industry. Operations managers assign resources and make scheduling decisions with no visibility of the revenue, cost, and profitability characteristics of the route they are manipulating. Transit speed decisions focus on ensuring trains safely reach …
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Fault tolerant control of active trailer steering systems for multi-trailer articulated heavy vehicles
… Steering (ATS) systems. MTAHVs are vital to the trucking industry, and it is crucial to enhance their safety, reliability and usability. In this research, a 4-DOF linear yaw-plane model of a B-Train double is generated. The vehicle model is validated using the commercial software package, …
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Risk sharing in contracts : the use of fuel surcharge programs
… has required the various parties involved in the trucking industry to employ risk-sharing contracts as an addendum to payment for services in the form of fuel surcharges. Fuel surcharges are effective in the sense that their structure transfers risk of fuel price volatility from carrier to …
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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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Estimating carbon emissions from less-than-truckload (LTL) shipments
… (LTL) is a $32-billion sector of the trucking industry that focuses on moving smaller shipments, typically with weights between 100 and 10,000 pounds, that do not require a full trailer to be moved. Currently, there are no widely accepted methods to estimate carbon emissions from LTL …
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The role of natural gas as a vehicle transportation fuel
… requirements, and reluctance of the trucking industry.
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A Comparative Analysis of Air-inflated and Foam Seat Cushions for Truck Seats
… input of the type that is commonly used in the trucking industry for testing seats (ISO2), and a step input for assessing the damping characteristics of each cushion. The tests were conducted over a twelve-hour period -- in four-hour intervals -- measuring the changes that occur at the seat …
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