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Temporal stability of shipment size decisions related to choice of truck type

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The choice of shipment size is a vital decision in logistics and has a strong indirect influence on freight transport demand, via the choice of mode and truck type choice. Through time, shipment sizes can change as a result of new decisions in the logistics process or due to conditions external to the supply chain. This study investigates the temporal stability of shipment size choices, relating these to the choice of truck types. It uses repeated cross-sectional data for the years 2015, 2017, and 2019 collected from cordon and business establishment surveys in Addis Ababa city, Ethiopia. The integrated choice and latent variables (ICLV) and latent growth (LG) models were used to assess the time-dependent patterns of choosing shipment sizes, both at the level of the entire freight system as well as the specific truck types. The model results reveal that shipment size decisions are temporally unstable where, in our case, shipment sizes exhibited a declining trend.
OriginalspråkEngelska
Artikelnummer2214635
Antal sidor29
TidskriftTransportmetrica A: Transport Science
Volym20
Nummer3
DOI
StatusPublicerad - 2024

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© 2023 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.

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Detta resultat bidrar till följande hållbara utvecklingsmål:

  1. SDG 9 – Hållbar industri, innovationer och infrastruktur
    SDG 9 – Hållbar industri, innovationer och infrastruktur

Nyckelord

  • Shipment size
  • discrete–continuous models
  • freight modechoice
  • temporal stability
  • time dependent

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