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9Demand Patterns and Trends Christopher Caplice, Center for Transportation and Logistics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA Jean-Louis Routhier, Laboratoire d'Economie des Transports de l'Institut des Sciences de l'Homme, Lyon, France Miguel Jaller, Center for Infrastructure, Transportation, and the Environment, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, USA Robert Chumley, Retail–Business Innovation, 7-Eleven, Inc., Dallas, Texas, USA Laetitia Dablanc, French Institute of Science and Technology for Transport, Development, and Networks, Paris, France IntroductIon Christopher Caplice Chris Caplice opened this session by explaining that "demand" means different things to different people. To shippers, demand means products; to freight transporters, demand means the demand for trucks to get the product into the store or to the final consumer.
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10 city logistics research: a transatlantic perspective A UFS consists of three complementary, nested surveys: 1. A survey of business establishments that describes the activity and size of the establishment and identifies all the freight delivery operations in relation to the characteristics of establishments and their environment; 2.
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11demand patterns and trends inputs of the model) and choosing a land use data area to test the implementation.
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12 city logistics research: a transatlantic perspective In numerous case studies, FTG is usually constant regardless of the size of the establishment and is not proportional to the number of employees per establishment. It appears that larger establishments received larger shipments in larger trucks, but the number of deliveries tends to remain constant.
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13demand patterns and trends ment increases, then it drops, and then it starts increasing again. The drop occurs as the carrier moves to a larger vehicle.
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14 city logistics research: a transatlantic perspective tions that are useful, and they generate additional data. His research focuses on how to best use the data.
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15demand patterns and trends Starbucks is located in the vault of a historical bank, preserving the historical design of the building. Offering undifferentiated products in a mundane store would result in a loss of business.
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16 city logistics research: a transatlantic perspective Taiwan, 7-Eleven offers a catalog of 600,000 items that can be ordered by phone and delivered to the store or any location of the customer's choosing. 7-Eleven is also experimenting with multichannel business models and has partnered with Amazon in a model in which customers could order items from Amazon and have them delivered to a locker in a 7-Eleven store.
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17demand patterns and trends Chumley added that 80% of 7-Eleven's stores in the United States are not in urban areas, so noise-level issues are not a concern now but may be in the future. synthesIs And suMMAry Laetitia Dablanc Summarizing the Demand Patterns and Trends session, Laetitia Dablanc said that researchers may have more freight demand data than they think they have.
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