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Chapter 7

Network Design for

Freight Transport

and Supply Chain

Tadashi Yamada

7.1 INTRODUCTION

There has been a growing appreciation of the importance of developing

networks in the eld of logistics and supply chain management (SCM),

including freight transport network (FTN) and supply chain network

(SCN). Freight transport constitutes an important activity undertaken

between and within cities. An efcient spatial organization of multi-

modal transport systems has the potential to support the economic and

sustainable development of cities, regions, and countries by alleviating

various externalities such as trafc congestion, increased ener