Michael Chisholm, Patrick O'Sullivan

Freight Flows and Spatial Aspects of the British Economy

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book reports experiments in the modelling of freight flows in Great Britain, on the basis of 78 origin-destination zones covering the entire country.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 152
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Januar 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 231g
• ISBN-13: 9780521112703
• ISBN-10: 0521112702
• Artikelnr.: 26056875

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Framework analysis
3. The problem of foreign trade
4. Freight flow data
5. Estimating the generation of traffic
6. The distribution of traffic
7. Modal split
8. The transport costs of manufacturing industry, 1963
9. Distance and the cost of transport
10. Summary and conclusions
Appendix.