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Longer lorries report: a clarification

Philippa Edmunds, Manager, Freight on Rail, London N1
07 December 2012
 

The Huddersfield University report for retailer Kimberly Clark into mega trucks did analyse the cross elasticity impacts of their introduction and stated that rail freight would reduce by 20% were 25 metre trucks to be introduced (‘Industry presses case for longer lorries’ LTT 09 Nov & Letters 23 Nov).

However, what it did not analyse was the price elasticity impacts i.e. the rebound effect, which could be considerable. Price elasticity (the rebound effect), takes into account...

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