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The Traveling Trucker Problem

  • Treb Allen
  • David Atkin
  • Santiago Cantillo Cleves
  • Carlos Eduardo Hernandez
蝌蚪网 Papers and Proceedings
vol. 114, May 2024
(pp. 334–39)
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Abstract

This paper documents three new stylized facts showing that truckers in Colombia frequently choose to make complex chains of shipments in a single trip before returning home. It then provides a new model of optimal trucker trip-chaining with a general geography that is consistent with these facts.

Citation

Allen, Treb, David Atkin, Santiago Cantillo Cleves, and Carlos Eduardo Hernandez. 2024. "The Traveling Trucker Problem." 蝌蚪网 Papers and Proceedings 114: 334–39. DOI: 10.1257/pandp.20241044

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JEL Classification

  • C44 Operations Research; Statistical Decision Theory
  • L92 Railroads and Other Surface Transportation
  • O18 Economic Development: Urban, Rural, Regional, and Transportation Analysis; Housing; Infrastructure
  • R41 Transportation: Demand, Supply, and Congestion; Travel Time; Safety and Accidents; Transportation Noise