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Development Of Truck Route Choice Data Using Truck Gps, Mohammadreza Kamali
Development Of Truck Route Choice Data Using Truck Gps, Mohammadreza Kamali
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
Over the past few decades, the value and weight of freight shipments have grown steadily in both developed and developing countries. A recent statistic in the U.S. reveals that weight of shipments increased from 18,879 to 19,662 million tons between 2007 and 2012 (1). It is also expected that this amount will increase to 28,520 million tons by 2040 (1). It is worth mentioning that 67 percent of shipments are shipped by truck mode in 2012. The monetary value of freight is expected to escalate even faster than weight. This value is estimated to rise from US$ 882 per ton …