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Book SynopsisDiscusses Professor Marvin L Manheim's contributions to transportation. This book presents his vision for the role of ICTs in transport. It covers topics including predictions of production to consumption freight flows through the use of multi regional input-output models, and choice analysis using freight market research surveys.
Table of ContentsRecent Developments in Transport Modelling: What We Can Learn for the Freight Sector. Marvin Manheim: Founder of the World Conference on Transport Research Society and Spiritus Rector of the Integration of Human Resources and Technological Systems in Transport. The Contribution of Professor Marvin L. Manheim to Transport and Logistic Science. The Next Challenge in Transportation Research: Enhancing the Application of the Mind. The Relationship between Economic Activity and Freight Transport. Multi-Regional Input-Output Models for Freight Demand Simulation at a National Level. The Aggregate-Disaggregate-Aggregate (ADA) Freight Model System. Discrete Choice Analysis of Shippers' Preferences. A Comparison of Conjoint, Multi-Criteria, Conditional Logit and Neural Network Analyses for Rank-Ordered Preference Data. The Value of Quality Attributes in Freight Transport: Evidence from an SP-Experiment in Switzerland. Measuring Value of Time in Freight Transport: A Systems Perspective. Models in Policy and Policy in Models: Integrating Decision Making. The Role of Government Policy towards Railway Freight Transport. Intelligent Freight Transport Systems: Opportunities and Practice. Prelims.
