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Policy-Oriented Cost Model for Shipping Commodities by Truck.
| 题名： | Policy-Oriented Cost Model for Shipping Commodities by Truck. |
| 作者： | Horowitz, A. J.; Hussein, M. I.; Petering, M. E. |
| 关键词： | Businesses; Cargo Transportation; Commodities; Costs; Decision Making; Economic Impact; International Trade; Logistics Services; Policies; Population; Routing; Shipping Containers; Transportation Netw |
| 摘要： | Surprisingly, transportation planners and policy makers do not have the ability to estimate the cost of shipping a quantity of a commodity between two locations for broad categories of goods. Costs of shipping are important components in mode, route, and location choice processes. Good knowledge of costs can aid public sector decision makers in determining the economic benefits of infrastructure improvements or determining the impacts on the private sector of various policies and operational strategies. Shipping costs relate to logistics practices of businesses, and these practices have been changing rapidly in recent years. In this study, we inventory cost models that have been used in the past and evaluate the availability of data sets containing shipment cost information. We then build a cost model for shipping various commodities and commodity groups by truck and present several examples to show how the model can address issues of interest to carriers, shippers, and governments. Freight can be broadly defined as the movement of goods from one place to another. The United States freight transportation network consists of hundreds of thousands of miles of transportation infrastructure and hundreds of thousands of transportation facilities devoted to five different modes of transport: road, rail, air, water, and pipeline. Increases in population, economic activity, and global trade have put tremendous pressure on this network in recent years. |
| 报告类型： | 科技报告 |
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