To better understand how road congestion adversely affects trucking operations, we surveyed approximately 1200 managers of all types of trucking companies operating in California. More than 80% of these managers consider traffic congestion on freeways and surface streets to be either a "somewhat...

Freight transportation plays a vital role in the economy of the nation and the state of California in particular. The value of total freight shipments originating in California in 1997 is estimated $638.5 billion, 10.6 percent of all US shipments by value. This represents 706.5 million tons of...

Modern panel surveys frequently suffer from high and likely non-ignorable attrition, and transportation surveys suffer from poor travel time estimates. This paper examines new methods for adjusting forecasts and model estimates to account for these problems. The methods we describe are...

Efficient maritime transportation is heavily dependent on the smooth operation of land transportation. Swift modal transfers are key to successful intermodal operations. In this paper we examine the efficiency of maritime intermodal transfer facilities in California, from the point of view of...

Modern panel surveys frequently suffer from high and likely non-ignorable attrition, and transportation surveys suffer from poor travel time estimates. This paper examines new methods for adjusting forecasts and model estimates to account for these problems. The methods we describe are...

Modern panel surveys frequently suffer from high and likely non-ignorable attrition, and transportation surveys suffer from poor travel time estimates. This paper examines new methods for adjusting forecasts and model estimates to account for these problems. The methods we describe are...

Local area freight networks (LANs) are used to collect and distribute freight within metropolitan regions. Focusing on common carriers, this paper classifies LAN topologies, then shows how the optimal topology depends on demand characteristics. Continuous space approximations are used to analyze...

Drivers account for up to 80% of operational cost of transit agencies. This dissertation provides a method for improving the productivity of this workforce by introducing flexible contracts. Under these contracts drivers do not work the same number of hours every day. However, the number of days...

In this article, the authors use field data from a 5-lane freeway in Oakland, California, to demonstrate the concept that detailed information can indeed be recovered from freeway detector data with a simple visualization tool. By using the oblique plot technique, a "moving bottleneck" can be...

The lot-sizing polytope is a fundamental structure contained in many practical production planning problems. Here we study this polytope and identify fact-defining inequalities that cut of all fractional extreme points of its linear programming relaxation, as well as liftings from those facets....