The Traveling Trucker Problem

Treb Allen; David Atkin; Santiago Cantillo Cleves; Carlos Eduardo Hernandez

doi:10.3386/w31961

The Traveling Trucker Problem

Treb Allen, David Atkin, Santiago Cantillo Cleves & Carlos Eduardo Hernandez

Working Paper 31961

DOI 10.3386/w31961

Issue Date December 2023

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.

Allen is grateful to the hospitality of CEMFI, where this paper was completed. Santiago and Carlos gratefully acknowledge funding by the World Bank and Universidad de los Andes. All errors are our own. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.
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Treb Allen, David Atkin, Santiago Cantillo Cleves, and Carlos Eduardo Hernandez, "The Traveling Trucker Problem," NBER Working Paper 31961 (2023), https://doi.org/10.3386/w31961.

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