The Traveling Trucker Problem

Treb Allen, David Atkin, Santiago Cantillo-Cleves and Carlos Eduardo Hernández

No 31961, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: This paper documents three new stylized facts showing that truckers in Colombia frequently choose to make complex chains of shipments in a single trip before returning home. It then provides a newmodel of optimal trucker trip-chaining with a general geography that is consistent with these facts.

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Date: 2023-12
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Published as Treb Allen & David Atkin & Santiago Cantillo Cleves & Carlos Eduardo Hernandez, 2024. "The Traveling Trucker Problem," AEA Papers and Proceedings, vol 114, pages 334-339.

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