Freight Transport Modelling (0) - Hardcover

Moshe Ben Akiva

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1781902852 ISBN 13: 9781781902851

Publisher: Emerald Publishing, 2013

Synopsis

The on-going globalisation and the increasing demand for flexibility in modern businesses have made transport, together with business logistics, a major functional domain. Transport growth is essentially for economic growth but is not without negative impacts. External effects such as pollution, congestion, accidents and damage to infrastructure generate considerable social costs that impose a heavy burden on society. This title addresses the need to develop new freight transport models and scientific tools to provide sound solutions that consider the wide range of internal and external impacts. The international contributions push forward frontiers in freight transport modelling and analysis.

About this title

About the Author:

Moshe Ben Akiva - Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Hilde Meersman - Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium
Eddy van de Voorde - Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium

Review:

Contributors from the engineering, operations, and financial dimensions of freight transport examine modeling it at the global, regional, and local and urban levels. Among the topics are the relationship between economic activity and freight transport, modeling the emergence of spatio-temporal structures in commodity transport, the decision-making process and factors affecting truck routing, modeling for public policies inducement of urban freight business development, and making real-time fleet management decisions under time-dependent conditions in urban freight distribution. Distributed in North America by Turpin Distribution. --Book News Inc. Portland, OR

About this edition

• Publisher: Emerald Publishing
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1781902852
• ISBN 13: 9781781902851
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 400
• Editor: Moshe Ben Akiva, Hilde Meersman, Eddy Van De Voorde