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How is own account transport well adapted to urban environments?
CRUZ, Cecilia

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Average number of shipments per municipality in 2007
I Less than one shipment per week
1
to 5 shipments per week
6 to
10 shipments per week
11 to 22 shipments per week
City of Paris

= Major roads

----- Département borders

Municipal borders

-----Seine River

Home municipality of the firm

0_______10_______20 Km

Figure 10: Distribution of third-party deliveries by a wholesaler in the Parisian region. Source: data from the firm


These maps illustrate the fact that shippers rationalize costs, and that own-account shipping
is a conscious strategic choice, rather than a simple decision made without knowledge of the
environment.

We have also analyzed all of this firm's shipments (both own-account and third-party) to
municipalities in Ile-de-France. Three parameters which affect transport cost (frequency,
tonnage, time accessibility) have been calculated for each municipality. As mentioned above,
the entire zone is not served on an own-account basis because costs are too high. We have
grouped different values for these parameters into four categories:

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