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Doctoral dissertations in transportation
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recommendations. Given the sample forwarder network, optimal routings require different routing maps over the various days of a representative week, the use of more than one coexisting transhipment point for many origins and the introduction of Boston, as a major new gateway for traffic to Europe. Under future rates, routing strategies are not affected significantly, but only larger and efficient forwarders are expected to survive and at considerable decreases in their handsome returns on investment-this largely because the expected future rates do not yield themselves to arbitrage. Some rate-setting recommendations are made to the CAB and IATA. This applied thesis thus meets the stated goals, solves the routing problem of the forwarder through a new network algorithm and gives some reasonable predictions for the air freight forwarding industry.
Doctoral Dissertations in Transportation, 5th. Edition, 1972-1974, Transportation Center Library, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, March 1975. This tifth issue of Northwestern’s dissertation bibliography contains 472 entries, all but 12 of which are from the United States. The basic sources used for the compilation are: Dissertation Abstracts International,. American Doctoral Dissertations, American Economic Review, Journal of Business, Journal of Finance, and the Transportation Geography Newsletter. Within its limitations, thisbibliography is extremely useful, and the Transportation Center at Northwestern is to be commended for producing it over the last fifteen years. The limitations are, however, reasonably severe. As the bibliography itself does not point them out, a few words on them are in order.
As may be guessed by the list of sources, the bibliography is far from complete. It is particularly deficient because (for reasons which I have yet to discover) several universities are not affiliated with University Microfilms, the principal purveyor of copies of the dissertations, and thus do not get their dissertations routinely featured in relevant bibliographies. This deficiency is particularly obvious in comparing the cumulative totals of entries for universities in the fourth and fifth editions of the bibliography. By their count, only one dissertation in transportation was written at the University of California at Berkeley between 1971 and 1974,and only four at MIT; that is definitely not correct. The researcher should thus not be mislead into believing that the bibliography covers all the recent dissertations in transportation in the United States; quite the contrary, it omits much of what some might think of as the best work. As a corollary to this deficiency, the tables showing the ‘Dissertation Production Ranking for U.S. Universities” are quite wrong. Not surprisingly, moreover, they indicate that Northwestern consistently outproduces any other center. This table, misleading as it is about the locus of doctoral research in transportation, does not seem like a service to the profession. It should be omitted from subsequent editions. Finally, the bibliography almost exclusively focusses on the United States. It would seem worthwhile for the editors to put themselves into closer contact with centers outside the United States so that they could provide more international coverage. The editors should also, presumably, correspond more diligently with many American centers of transportation so that their list would be more complete. RICHARDDE NEUFVILLE
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recommendations. Given the sample forwarder network, optimal routings require different routing maps over the various days of a representative week, the use of more than one coexisting transhipment point for many origins and the introduction of Boston, as a major new gateway for traffic to Europe. Under future rates, routing strategies are not affected significantly, but only larger and efficient forwarders are expected to survive and at considerable decreases in their handsome returns on investment-this largely because the expected future rates do not yield themselves to arbitrage. Some rate-setting recommendations are made to the CAB and IATA. This applied thesis thus meets the stated goals, solves the routing problem of the forwarder through a new network algorithm and gives some reasonable predictions for the air freight forwarding industry.
Doctoral Dissertations in Transportation, 5th. Edition, 1972-1974, Transportation Center Library, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, March 1975. This tifth issue of Northwestern’s dissertation bibliography contains 472 entries, all but 12 of which are from the United States. The basic sources used for the compilation are: Dissertation Abstracts International,. American Doctoral Dissertations, American Economic Review, Journal of Business, Journal of Finance, and the Transportation Geography Newsletter. Within its limitations, thisbibliography is extremely useful, and the Transportation Center at Northwestern is to be commended for producing it over the last fifteen years. The limitations are, however, reasonably severe. As the bibliography itself does not point them out, a few words on them are in order.
As may be guessed by the list of sources, the bibliography is far from complete. It is particularly deficient because (for reasons which I have yet to discover) several universities are not affiliated with University Microfilms, the principal purveyor of copies of the dissertations, and thus do not get their dissertations routinely featured in relevant bibliographies. This deficiency is particularly obvious in comparing the cumulative totals of entries for universities in the fourth and fifth editions of the bibliography. By their count, only one dissertation in transportation was written at the University of California at Berkeley between 1971 and 1974,and only four at MIT; that is definitely not correct. The researcher should thus not be mislead into believing that the bibliography covers all the recent dissertations in transportation in the United States; quite the contrary, it omits much of what some might think of as the best work. As a corollary to this deficiency, the tables showing the ‘Dissertation Production Ranking for U.S. Universities” are quite wrong. Not surprisingly, moreover, they indicate that Northwestern consistently outproduces any other center. This table, misleading as it is about the locus of doctoral research in transportation, does not seem like a service to the profession. It should be omitted from subsequent editions. Finally, the bibliography almost exclusively focusses on the United States. It would seem worthwhile for the editors to put themselves into closer contact with centers outside the United States so that they could provide more international coverage. The editors should also, presumably, correspond more diligently with many American centers of transportation so that their list would be more complete. RICHARDDE NEUFVILLE