Data and Code for: The Traveling Trucker Problem

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) Treb Allen, Dartmouth College; David Atkin, MIT; Santiago Cantillo, University of California-San Diego; Carlos Hernandez, Universidad de los Andes

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  Replication - Public 03/25/2024 03:20:PM

Project Citation: 

Allen, Treb, Atkin, David, Cantillo, Santiago, and Hernandez, Carlos. Data and Code for: The Traveling Trucker Problem. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2024. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2024-05-22. https://doi.org/10.3886/E199247V1

Project Description

Summary:  View help for Summary This is the data and code accompanying "The Traveling Trucker Problem" in the AEA: Papers and Proceedings. The abstract of the article is:

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 new model of optimal trucker trip-chaining with a general geography that is consistent with these facts.



Scope of Project

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      F14 Empirical Studies of Trade
      O18 Economic Development: Urban, Rural, Regional, and Transportation Analysis; Housing; Infrastructure
      R40 Transportation Economics: General
Geographic Coverage:  View help for Geographic Coverage Colombia


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