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Guest Editorial ---Focused Issue on Freight Transportation

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  • Teodor Gabriel Crainic

    (ESG UQAM, Montréal, Québec H2X 3X2, Canada)

  • Gilbert Laporte

    (HEC Montréal, Montréal, Québec H3T 2A7, Canada)

  • Vedat Verter

    (McGill University, Montréal, Québec H3A 2T5, Canada)

Abstract

The transportation of freight embodies exchanges and commerce in human society and, thus, constitutes a major enabling factor for most of our economic and social activities. The importance of this role is continuously increasing, as do the requirements for freight transportation, to be efficient, reliable, flexible, and responsive to our continuously evolving and, sometimes, contradictory needs and expectations. These requirements challenge operations research and transportation science to continuously enhance our methodological capabilities and innovatively apply them to important issues in the analysis, planning, and management of freight transportation and logistics.

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  • Teodor Gabriel Crainic & Gilbert Laporte & Vedat Verter, 2009. "Guest Editorial ---Focused Issue on Freight Transportation," Transportation Science, INFORMS, vol. 43(2), pages 127-128, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:inm:ortrsc:v:43:y:2009:i:2:p:127-128
    DOI: 10.1287/trsc.1090.0276
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