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9 chapter three Complexities AssoCiAted with developing truCk trip generAtion rAtes for Air CArgo fACilities The increased importance of trucks in transportation planning and traffic engineering has contributed to a need for trip generation data that can be used to estimate truck traffic volumes. As noted earlier, the robustness of trip generation data for trucks associated with air cargo facilities has not received as much study or attention as more general truck traffic.
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10 being shipped and delivered wherever and whenever they are desired. This relatively new "pull economy," in which consumers and users of commodities and products drive the production and shipping activities, differs significantly from the historical "push economy," in which manufacturing cycles and processes generally dictated when and where commodities would be needed and products would be available to consumers.
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11 The trends of major significance to the future of air cargo include: • Increasing focus of shipping activities on major gateway airports • Rationalization of belly cargo capacity • Modal shifts, new markets emerging (primarily international) • Dynamic and changing distribution systems • Imbalances in freight flows between key countries and gateway airports • E-commerce (e.g., Amazon)
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