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The Impact of Information and Communication Technology on Road Freight Transportation

Year: 2005

Type: article

Abstract: Surveying the recent trend toward e-commerce and computerization in the trucking industry, this paper establishes a framework for analyzing the impact of information and communication technology on road freight transportation in terms of commerce, logistics and fleet management, and proposes hypothetical mechanisms of influence. The authors note that the rapid growth of e-commerce and freight fleet management systems make it difficult to arrive at firm, statistics-based conclusions about their impact on road freight transportation, but suggest that more sophisticated government management of transportation demand as well as freight fleet management systems could cancel out the negative impact of e-commerce on road transportation.

Source: IATSS Research

DOI: 10.1016/s0386-1112(14)60114-x

Authors: Ryuichi YOSHIMOTO, Toshinori NEMOTO

Institutions: Systems Research & Development Institute of Japan, Hitotsubashi University

Language: English

Topic: Urban and Freight Transport Logistics

Subfield: Transportation

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Industry, innovation and infrastructure

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W2103154663

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Cites: 8

Cited by: 26

Related to: 10