Article(electronic)February 1, 1974
The Role of Terminal Consolidation in Urban Goods Distribution
In: International journal of physical distribution and logistics management, Volume 4, Issue 3, p. 166-175
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Abstract
In recent years, the problem of transporting small shipments of general freight by motor carrier within an urban centre has surfaced to be, in the words of a Traffic World editorial, "the most important US transportation problem of the 1960s". The chairman of the Transportation Association of America's Transport Technology Committee recently concluded, "Our metropolitan areas are being strangled by the inefficient movement of goods—the lifeblood of any city."
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