Optimal Freight Service Quality and Implications for Economic Analysis, Inventory-Theoretic Shipper Cost Functions and Run-Through Train Operations

The provision of freight transportation requires the consumption of both shipper (consumer) and carrier (producer) resources. The quality of freight service impacts the amounts, and hence costs, of both sets of resources. Optimal freight service quality (for a given volume level) minimizes the sum of carrier and relevant shipper costs (termed "full cost"). The shipper cost is dominated by inventory cost elements and does not include payments to the carrier. This social efficiency criterion, termed "quality efficiency", is addressed via three research foci.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Civil Engineering

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2014

Author dc:creator

• Brown, David Girard

Contributors dc:contributor

• Boyce, David E.

• Economics, General
• Engineering, Civil
• Transportation

Identifier

(UMI)AAI8823087

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/69974