• DocumentCode
    3479940
  • Title

    Key factors in road-rail mode choice in India: applying the logistics cost approach

  • Author

    Cook, Peter D. ; Das, Sanjay ; Aeppli, Andreas ; Martland, Carl

  • Author_Institution
    GIS-Trans Ltd., Silver Spring, MD, USA
  • Volume
    2
  • fYear
    1999
  • fDate
    1999
  • Firstpage
    1280
  • Abstract
    There have been major changes in the share of road and rail traffic in India as the economy and the population has grown and become more urbanized. This paper summarizes the key factors for mode choice in freight transport that were found in India in a recent survey based on the logistics cost model of shipper behavior. Both the relative importance of these factors and customer rating of satisfaction is presented
  • Keywords
    financial data processing; goods dispatch data processing; logistics data processing; rail traffic; road traffic; India; customer satisfaction rating; freight transport; logistics cost approach; rail traffic; road traffic; road-rail mode choice; shipper behavior; Acceleration; Agriculture; Costs; Economic indicators; Iron; Logistics; Metal product industries; Metals industry; Rail transportation; Road transportation;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Simulation Conference Proceedings, 1999 Winter
  • Conference_Location
    Phoenix, AZ
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-5780-9
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/WSC.1999.816854
  • Filename
    816854