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The food and agribusiness is an important sector in European logistics with a share in the EU road transport of about 20 %. One of the main logistic challenges in this sector is to deal with the high dynamics and uncertainty in supply and demand. This paper defines requirements on [...]

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far as we know, the problem of existence of a maximiser of the welfare function in traffic congestion models a la Mohring and Harwitz has never been posed. In this chapter we present a mathematically rigorous existence result and take the opportunity to provide a similar variant [...]

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This chapter replicates Costa and Kahn's analysis of locational choices of highly educated couples for the Netherlands. We find increasing concentration of such power couples in the urbanised western part of the country. This trend occurs in spite of the absence of an urban [...]