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Lange, Anne ORCID: 0000-0001-6801-9515 and Delfmann, Werner (2017). Network concentration indices for less-than-truckload transportation. Transportation, 44 (6). S. 1475 - 1498. NEW YORK: SPRINGER. ISSN 1572-9435

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Abstract

An efficient and service-oriented transportation network is a necessary resource for successful less-than-truckload operations. The design and evaluation of transportation networks are mainly driven by quantitative particularly cost-oriented measures, such as transport and transshipment costs. This type of measurement, however, simply cannot represent the manifold performance of a transportation network. In particular, incorporating network concentration into network design decisions overcomes the shortcomings of purely cost-oriented decisions because spatial network concentration is at the root of many aspects of network performance (e.g., congestion and network vulnerability). This paper suggests modifications to the network concentration index and the hubbing concentration index from the passenger airline context for less-than-truckload road transportation. The modified indices enable information to be conveyed by network concentration into less-than-truckload network design decisions and provide a suitable perspective to include service-oriented aspects into network design.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Lange, Anne UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0001-6801-9515 UNSPECIFIED Delfmann, Werner UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-212385
DOI:	10.1007/s11116-016-9710-x
Journal or Publication Title:	Transportation
Volume:	44
Number:	6
Page Range:	S. 1475 - 1498
Date:	2017
Publisher:	SPRINGER
Place of Publication:	NEW YORK
ISSN:	1572-9435
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language FREIGHT TRANSPORTATION; HUBBING PRACTICES; SPOKE NETWORK; DESIGN; HUB; MANAGEMENT; IMPACT; LOCATION; MODELS; COST Multiple languages Engineering, Civil; Transportation; Transportation Science & Technology Multiple languages
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/21238