Fuel price elasticities for single-unit truck operations in the United States

Winebrake, James J.; Green, Erin H.; Comer, Bryan; Li, Chi; Froman, Sarah; Shelby, Michael

doi:10.1016/j.trd.2015.05.003

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“…The finding that fuel prices has little effect on freight volume contributes to transportation economics to some extent, and is consistent with some studies [4,5,7]. However, compared to past studies, we disaggregated the impact of fuel prices on freight transportation into the short-and long-run.…”

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confidence: 75%

“…If gasoline prices or diesel price data are available, we recommend that future research could analyze the impact of these specific fuel prices on freight traffic volume. The results of the potential study can be easily compared with previous research results, e.g., [4,5,7]. In addition, the freight volume may be endogenous relative to the energy price, and vice versa.…”

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confidence: 90%

“…Freight demand is often fuel price inelastic. For example, the U.S. trucking sector is relatively fuel price inelastic [4], with single-unit truck activity not being sensitive to diesel fuel prices over the period 1980-2012 [5], as higher fuel prices in the trucking industry slightly reduced fuel use [6]. Additionally, light goods vehicles and articulated trucks did not respond to changes in fuel prices in the UK.…”

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Long- and Short-Run Effects of Fuel Prices on Freight Transportation Volumes in Shanghai

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Chau

2019

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Freight transportation modes consume enormous amounts of energy. This paper estimates the long-and short-run effects of fuel prices on freight volumes in various modes of transportation in Shanghai. Data included monthly changes during the period 2009-2016. Air cargo series were suggested to include one or two unit roots, and hence were removed from the cointegration analysis. Both the Phillips-Ouliaris and Johansen tests did not detect long-run relationships between real fuel prices, water cargo, road, and rail freight. Conventional first-differenced VAR (vector autoregressive) models were estimated. Overall, whether in the short-or long-run, real fuel prices did not influence freight transportation volumes. However, we found a Granger causality running from rail to road freight, as in the short-run (one month), a 1% change in rail freight would lead to a reduction of 0.07% in road freight. Therefore, simply by increasing fuel prices, the government could seldom encourage the shift from energy-inefficient modes of freight transportation to energy-efficient ones to achieve a sustainable freight transport. The allocation of more time and routes for rail freight traffic and the reduction in rail freight taxes may increase the rail freight volume and hence decrease the overall energy use. Our findings, to some degree, contribute to freight transportation economics. Future research may examine the impact of gasoline prices or diesel prices on freight traffic volumes.

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2019

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“…Winebrake et al (2015aWinebrake et al ( , 2015b clearly found fuel demand from articulated trucks and travel activity of rigid trucks in the USA to be statistically not different from zero, yet we believe rail has emerged as a reasonable substitute to HGVs in the UK, making HGV activities and thus fuel consumption somewhat responsive to fuel costs.…”

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Diesel demand in the road freight sector in the UK: Estimates for different vehicle types

Wadud

2016

Applied Energy

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“…controlling of fuel consumption by analyzing the sensitivity of fuel consumption to its price, and have stated that this sensitivity could be determined by calculating E F P according to Eq. (1), where dependent variable is F or fuel consumption and independent variable is P or fuel price [33,34]. Furthermore, the concept of elasticity is assumed to be a good managerial tool to make decisions related to waste management, which persuaded the authors to use it in determining the most sensitive material to increasing nancial incentive (summarized results in Table 5).…”

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Integrated Construction Waste Management, a Holistic Approach

Mortaheb

Mahpour

2016

Scientia Iranica

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Abstract. The objective of the present study is to depict an inclusive Construction Waste Management (CWM) plan looking at the total project life cycle. This holistic approach is called Integrated Construction Waste Management (ICWM). This research program has been conducted through several consecutive academic dissertations at Civil Engineering Department of SUT and was rstly aimed to identify waste sources throughout project life cycle. Concurrent research e orts were focused on project delivery methods evaluation, e.g. contract type e ect on waste generation amount along with appropriate guidelines/incentives development that could promote ICMW. These studies were conducted via eld observations and questionnaire surveys where respondents were educated, skilled, and experienced construction industry experts. The research ndings indicate that construction waste origins/processes should be determined separately during the life cycle of construction projects to devise exclusive solutions accordingly. Furthermore, cost-plus contract, which is common in local residential projects in Iran, is identi ed as an improper contract type from construction waste generation standpoint. Incentive based programs, project stakeholders training, salvage plan establishing for all materials before project initiation, and apt documentation for future CWM planning are identi ed as e ective/practical ICWM solutions. Finally, it is concluded that thriving ICWM is going to be a teamwork result rather than responsibility of a sole stakeholder, e.g. contractor.

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Fuel price elasticities for single-unit truck operations in the United States

Cited by 17 publications

References 28 publications

Long- and Short-Run Effects of Fuel Prices on Freight Transportation Volumes in Shanghai

Long- and Short-Run Effects of Fuel Prices on Freight Transportation Volumes in Shanghai

Diesel demand in the road freight sector in the UK: Estimates for different vehicle types

Integrated Construction Waste Management, a Holistic Approach

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