Stepping Back Freight Transportation Overview

Clearly, this assessment is helpful in understanding the choice of a transpor-fafion service, but how do these services and characteristics manifest themselves in the market for freight transportation Of course, as we have indicated earlier, the market for transportation services includes shippers (the buyers of freight transportation services) and carriers (the sellers of those services). Moreover, carriers may be classified by type along various lines. First, we 

The other way in which we distinguish carriers is by the transportation modes they utilize. This distinction relates more directly to our modeling efforts in that it very clearly lines up with the various cost and service characteristics discussed earlier. In addition, on any given mode, a carrier can offer various transport services, which we distinguish for some modes in our list given in the following  

This shipping innovation dates to the 1950s (Levinson, 2006) and has led to the international measure of shipping volume of TEU, or 20-ft-equivalent units (see, e.g., BTS, 2011a). Of course, freight can move domestically via water as well, along various inland waterways like rivers and canals, or from point-to-point along the coast (e.g., from New York, NY to Charleston, SC in the United States). 

Source National Transportation Survey of the U.S. Bureau of Table 1-50, http //www.bts.gov/publications/national. html/table 01 50.html 

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