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Title:

LOGISTICS STRATEGIES FOR REGIONAL GROWTH

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00368169

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Abstract:

This paper analyzes the capability of the logistics system to (a) cope with regional growth and (b) be used as a tool to initiate desired growth. The focus is on small towns and rural areas (STRAs) of regions. Distinctions are made between operational and functional approaches to the analysis of logistics resources. An operational perspective of transportation resources results in the hind-part-before use of operational techniques as the basis for the design of strategies for resource use. This results in considering the transportation system and the transportation activities as ends to themselves. A functional perspective of logistics resources recognizes that transportation is only one subset of a group of related resources that collectively are means to an end. It recognizes that the function of the logistics system is to support the marketing effort of the users who collectively make up the economic infrastructure of regions. It also recognizes that strategies for the use of the system are designed in light of its market-support function and that operating techniques flow from strategies. Problems associated with the operational perspective are discussed as a backdrop for suggested strategies for the logistics system. The strategies suggested are designed to (a) improve the economic and temporal connections between STRA's and their markets and sources of supply and (b) relate the function of the system to certain environmental features. (Author)

Supplemental Notes:

Publication of this paper sponsored by Committee on Transportation Programming, Planning, and Systems Evaluation. 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 Accession #:

01411654

Authors:

Constantin, James A

Pagination:

pp 6-13

Publication Date:

1982

Serial:

Transportation Research Record

Issue Number: 851
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
ISSN: 0361-1981

Conference:

61st Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board

Location: Washington District of Columbia, United States
Date: 1982-1-18 to 1982-1-22

ISBN:

0309033543

Media Type:

Digital/other

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References (14)

Uncontrolled Terms:

User needs

Subject Areas:

Administration and Management; Economics; Freight Transportation; Highways; Society; I10: Economics and Administration

Files:

TRIS, TRB

Created Date:

Dec 30 1982 12:00AM

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