Synthetic European road freight transport flow data. [PDF]
This data article describes a dataset on European road freight traffic. The dataset includes truck traffic flows between 1675 regions all over Europe. In addition to the road freight flows in tons as well as number of vehicles, the dataset also contains ...
Speth D, Sauter V, Plötz P, Signer T.
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SYSTEM MODEL FOR AUTONOMOUS ROAD FREIGHT TRANSPORTATION [PDF]
Emerging info-communication and vehicle technologies (especially vehicle automation) facilitate evolvement of autonomous road freight transportation. The entire transport system and its operation undergo a major change.
Csiszár, Csaba, Földes, Dávid
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THE IMPACT OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY ON ROAD FREIGHT TRANSPORTATION
Surveying the recent trend toward e-commerce and computerization in the trucking industry, this paper establishes a framework for analyzing the impact of information and communication technology on road freight transportation in terms of commerce ...
Ryuichi YOSHIMOTO
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A new statistical approach for China road freight transport at a subnational level. [PDF]
Currently, there is a large deviation between official road freight data and real road freight performance at a subnational level in China. In order to deal with this deviation, the new concept of local freight tonnage and ton-kilometers is presented in ...
Huang F, Wang J, Xie W, Chen B, Ma C.
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Modelling Planner-Carrier Interactions in Road Freight Transport: Optimization of Road Maintenance Costs Via Overloading Control [PDF]
A bi-level modelling approach is proposed to represent the interaction between the vehicle loading practices of road freight transport carriers, and the decisions of a road planning authority responsible both for road maintenance and for the enforcement ...
Fowkes, AS, Moreno, E, Watling, DP
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Analyzing the productivity of Korea and China’s road freight transport industry: A nonparametric Malmquist approach [PDF]
The objectives of this paper are to estimate the annual Malmquist TFP(total factor productivity) index of Korea and China’s road freight transport with DEA(data envelope analysis) and to decompose the index into technical efficiency change and technology
Hun-Koo Ha, Sang-Won Lee, Zhao Cheng
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Improving road-side surveys for a better knowledge of road freight transport [PDF]
The focus of this paper is to enhance our observation and knowledge of interurban road freight transport. It explores some possibilities for improving roadside freight surveys, usually used to gather origin-destination data. To achieve this, new questions are added to a standard roadside survey form, and the enhanced survey form is tested through two ...
Combes, François, Leurent, Fabien
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Dynamics and trends of the development of transport relations in road freight transport
This paper investigates the structure of transport relations in the Croatian road freight transport system. The paper is based on data from the Croatian Central Bureau of Statistics, according to statistical reports entitled "Transport and communications"
Marijan Rajsman+2 more
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Effect of internet of things on road freight industry
Background: Evolution in global supply chain has created numerous complexities especially in the transportation of freight. Some of the complexities include ever increasing operational cost, long lead-times, limited end-to-end visibility and raw material
Nadine Farquharson+2 more
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LNG: an alternative fuel for road freight transport in Europe [PDF]
Currently, energy consumption in the worldwide transport sector depends on 92.8% oil fuels. This dependency, among other problems, produces high levels of harmful emissions, which makes it necessary to increase the use of less polluting and more cost-effective alternative sources as natural gas.
Osorio Tejada, Jose Luis+2 more
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