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Title: INTERCITY HIGHWAY TRANSPORT SHARE TENDS TO VARY INVERSELY WITH SIZE OF PLANT
Accession Number: 00201318
Record Type: Component
Abstract: SMALL MANUFACTURING PLANTS GENERALLY DEPEND PRIMARILY ON HIGHWAY TRANSPORTATION FOR SHIPMENTS TO CUSTOMERS OR REDISTRIBUTION POINTS. THE DEGREE OF RELIANCE TENDS TO DECLINE WITH AN INCREASE IN SIZE OF PLANT. A SIGNIFICANT INVERSE RELATIONSHIP WAS FOUND BETWEEN SIZE OF MANUFACTURING PLANTS AND RELATIVE USE OF HIGHWAY TRANSPORT FOR OUTBOUND SHIPMENTS. THIS WAS SHOWN BY AN ANALYSIS OF A PROBILITY SAMPLE OF OVER 1 MILLION SHIPMENTS DRAWN FROM THE TRAFFIC FILES OF ABOUT 10,000 MANUFACTURING PLANTS, REPRESENTING ESSENTIALLY THE INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSE OF THE U.S. SOME MAJOR RELATED ISSUES WERE TOUCHED, SUCH AS THE RELATIVE VOLUME OF TOTAL TONNAGE SHIPPED BY INDUSTRY GROUP BY PLANT SIZE. DATA SHOULD BE USEFUL FOR IMPROVING LONG-RANGE ESTIMATES OF HIGHWAY POTENTIALS ARISING FROM CHANGES IN INDUSTRY-PLANT- SIZE MIX AND FOR ESTIMATING MARKET POTENTIALS FOR INDUSTRY- AREA CATEGORIES NOT PUBLISHED IN THE COMMODITY TRANSPORTATION SURVEY REPORTS.
Supplemental Notes: Paper sponsored by Committee on Intercity Highway Freight Transportation and presented at the 46th Annual Meeting. Distribution, posting, or copying of this PDF is strictly prohibited without written permission of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academy of Sciences. Unless otherwise indicated, all materials in this PDF are copyrighted by the National Academy of Sciences. Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved.
Monograph Title: Monograph Accession #: 01410126
Authors: Buhl, Walter FPagination: No 175, pp 9-14, 4 TAB, 2 REF
Publication Date: 1967
Serial: Media Type: Digital/other
Features: References
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TRT Terms: Uncontrolled Terms: Old TRIS Terms: Subject Areas: Economics; Highways; Marine Transportation; Research; Society
Files: TRIS, TRB
Created Date: Sep 5 1994 12:00AM
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