Changing urban structure and its implications for terminals and pickup and delivery problems in metropolitan areas.

Goods movement in urban areas is dominated by the motor truck and there is little prospect in the foreseeable future of any major technological change that would reduce the dominance of the freewheeling vehicle on the streets and highways. Therefore new centers for the emerging highway network is needed. The planning of future relationships among systems of freight transportation and the location of the various land use must involve considerations of alternative patterns of movement in order to minimize the total of ton-miles.