PPT Slide
Useful Applications of the Regional Freight Movement Simulator include:
1) Evaluation of the effects of more accurate and timely information
(or the absence of it) on:
---- at-market commodity prices
---- the pattern of freight flows
---- profitability, and longer term facility (re)locations
And the value of investing additional costs in information gathering systems (collecting data on costs, prices, suppliers, customers, and competitors)
2) Evaluation of the effects of traffic congestion (and the value of its avoidance) on:
---- at-market commodity prices
---- the pattern of freight flows
---- profitability, and longer term facility (re)locations
- Evaluation of alternative forms of supply chain, with mixed, multiple level business connections between firms in different network tiers.
(e.g. direct producer-to-consumer purchases and deliveries, as well as
transactions through intermediaries such as retailers).