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Defying Gravity: The Substitutability of Transportation in International Trade

Lux, Matthias - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

What role do individual modes of transportation play in international trade? To study this question, I develop a model … of international trade that incorporates a role for transportation and thus allows me to study mode-specific trade flows … transportation. The estimated model implies that surface transportation is mostly used for trade over short distances, whereas air …

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Do Biofuel Mandates Raise Food Prices?

Chakravorty, Ujjayant; Hubert, Marie-Hélène; Moreaux, … - Centre de Recherche en Économie et Management (CREM) - 2012

Biofuels have received a lot of attention as a substitute for gasoline in transportation. They have been blamed …

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The Egnatia Motorway and The Changes in Interregional Trade in Greece: An Ex Ante Assessment

Serafeim, Polyzos - In: European Spatial Research and Policy 16 (2009) 2, pp. 23-47

regional economy induced by interregional transportation infrastructure are associated with trade flows between different …

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An Efficient Procedure for Designing Single Allocation Hub and Spoke Systems

Pirkul, Hasan; Schilling, David A. - In: Management Science 44 (1998) 12-Part-2, pp. 235-235

logistics, communication, and mass transportation, there has been considerable interest by practitioners and researchers alike …

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Real-Time Dispatch of Petroleum Tank Trucks

Brown, Gerald G.; Graves, Glenn W. - In: Management Science 27 (1981) 1, pp. 19-32

performance on these dispatch models in lieu of their solution as integer programs. Objectives include minimizing transportation …

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Dynamic Allocation of Airline Check-In Counters: A Queueing Optimization Approach

Parlar, Mahmut; Sharafali, Moosa - In: Management Science 54 (2008) 8, pp. 1410-1424

This paper was motivated by an observation in an international airport with regard to allocation of resources for check-in counters. In an exclusive check-in counter system, each flight has a dedicated number of counters that will be open until at least a half-hour before the scheduled departure...

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An Inventory Model Embedded in Designing a Supply Contract

Henig, Mordechai; Gerchak, Yigal; Ernst, Ricardo; Pyke, … - In: Management Science 43 (1997) 2, pp. 184-189

To reduce lead-time and its variability, modern supply and transportation contracts often specify the frequency of, and …., Y. Gerchak. 1989. Transportation contracts and safety stocks for just-in-time deliveries. Manufacturing and Oper … transportation costs. We then use the resulting total costs to derive the optimal contract volume. Various examples are provided. The …

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Virtual Progress: The Effect of Path Characteristics on Perceptions of Progress and Choice

Soman, Dilip; Shi, Mengze - In: Management Science 49 (2003) 9, pp. 1229-1250

In goal--oriented services, consumers want to get transported from one well--defined state (start) to another (destination) state without much concern for intermediate states. A cost--based evaluation of such services should depend on the total cost associated with the service---i.e., the price...

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A Path-Based Approach for Hazmat Transport Network Design

Verter, Vedat; Kara, Bahar Y. - In: Management Science 54 (2008) 1, pp. 29-40

The people living and working around the roads used for hazardous material (hazmat) shipments face the risk of suffering undesirable consequences of an accident. The main responsibility to mitigate the hazmat transport risk at a population zone belongs to the government agency with jurisdiction...

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Erratum to "The Adoption Time Period for Some Transportation Innovations"

Ettlie, John E. - In: Management Science 26 (1980) 12, pp. 1285-1286

Erratum to the author's paper "The Adoption Time Period for Some Transportation Innovations," Management Sci., Vol. 25 …

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