Overview
TRB’s Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2168 includes 16 papers that explore the discrete berth-scheduling problem; multimodal network analysis and vulnerability assessment; location choice model for logistic firms; agent-based combined traffic simulation of private cars and commercial vehicles; and shipper willingness to pay to increase environmental performance in freight transportation.
This issue of the TRR also examines inland freight transport modal choice; port hinterland for networks of intermodal freight transportation; online inventory routing systems under demand surges; transport and logistics demand; identifying and characterizing truck bottlenecks; cost impact of freight bottlenecks on the trucking industry; estimating the impact of congestion on freight; algorithms to quantify the impact of congestion on urban freight distribution networks; exclusive truck facilities; building resilience into freight transportation systems; and fuel ethanol transportation activity and potential distribution constraints.