A policy-oriented cost model for shipping commodities by truck.

Details

• Creators:
  Hussein, Mazen I. ; Petering, Matthew E. H.
• Corporate Creators:
  National Center for Freight and Infrastructure Research and Education (U.S.)
• Corporate Contributors:
  United States. Dept. of Transportation. Research and Innovative Technology Administration
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Trucking
  • Commodities
  • Costs
  • Economic models
  • Freight transportation
  • Transportation policy
  • Policy analysis
• Publication/ Report Number:
  CFIRE 02-30
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Corporate Publisher:
  National Center for Freight and Infrastructure Research and Education (U.S.)
• Description:
  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.
• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  DTRT06-G-0020
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/28206/dot_28206_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.21 MB]
• Collection(s):
  University Transportation Centers ; US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:8d83c337a9b51cb52b4c0abda4ef2725f76e7802f694c05ca158d1b848be143f