This paper examines the impacts of truck lane restriction on urban freeways using traffic simulation models. The study includes three main parts: Part (1) provides insights into conditions under which truck lane restrictions would work well; Part (2) identifies the best number of lanes to...

If truck drivers could use internet-enabled wireless devices to access traveler information, what type of information would they most want to have? The answer almost surely varies according to the type of trucking operation, location, and many other factors. We analyzed preferences for traveler...

Freight transportation has long been recognized as an important foundation of economic strength. Previous studies use traditional methods to examine a set of scenarios. However, due to the complexity of transportation projects which can have substitution effects in a network the number of...

Managers in charge of the California operations of nearly 1,200 trucking companies were asked their opinions regarding how useful various sources of traffic information are to their dispatchers and to their drivers. They were also asked to evaluate the usefulness of improved traveler information...

This paper presents an analysis of the perceptions held by for-hire and private trucking company logistics and operations managers about the impacts of congestion on their operations and the feasibility and effectiveness of actual and potential congestion mitigation policies. Responses to an...

The third party logistics industry in the US and world wide is currently undergoing a rapid transition. The main drivers of these changes are advances in information and communications technologies, the development of on-line freight marketplaces and the emergence worldwide of the so called...

In this paper, we examine the for-hire truckload trucking industry in the U.S. and propose a new auction based carrier collaboration mechanism designed to facilitate economically efficient cooperation among functionally equivalent small and medium sized trucking companies based on a post market...

Using data from a 2001 survey of managers of 700 trucking companies operating in California, we tested competing hypotheses about the relationship between managers' perceptions of the impact of traffic congestion on their operations and their companies' adoption of routing and scheduling...

The objective of this research is to understand the demand for information technology among trucking companies. A multivariate discrete choice model is estimated on data from a large-scale survey of the trucking industry in California. This model is designed to identify the influences of each of...

This study examines electronic integration in logistics supply chains using the non-integrated US-international air cargo industry as a case study. We ask what impact electronic integration has on interorganizational task performance, and hypothesize about factors limiting the effectiveness of...