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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