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... 51 Student Honor Session Student Honor Panel Presentations Helen Brohl, U.S. Committee on the Marine Transportation System, presiding Assessing the Impact of Collaboration of Truck Carriers in Intermodal Freight Transportation Majbah Uddin, University of South Carolina, presenter n recent years, intermodal transport has become an increasingly attractive alternative to freight shippers, and this trend is likely to continue as state and federal agencies implement policies to induce a freight modal shift from road to intermodal transport.
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... 52 Determining the Accuracy of Vessels' Estimated Time of Arrival with Different Output Parameters Akintola Aremu, Texas Southern University, presenter ultimodal transportation is a growing field and a strategy in the global supply chain. Therefore, it is important to look at ways and technologies that can be employed to improve the effectiveness of this system.
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... 53 Dcollection = data collection day (mm/dd/yyyy) , DATA = arrival day (mm/dd/yyyy)
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... 54 Freight Mode Choice Modeling Using the 2012 Commodity Flow Survey and Longitudinal Business Data 2012 Lokesh Kumar Kalahasthi, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, presenter José Holguín-Veras, Shama Campbell, Diana Ramírez-Ríos, and Jeffrey Wojtowicz, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Carlos A González-Calderón, National University of Colombia at Medellin his session summarized the key findings from the National Cooperative Freight Research Program (NCFRP)
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... 55 METHODOLOGY The research involved both qualitative and quantitative techniques. As part of the qualitative effort, the team conducted in-depth interviews with freight agents.
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... 56 TABLE 3. Disaggregate, Cost and Travel Time.

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