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An analysis explores economies of scale in trucking over short distances, contrasting with bus transportation trends.
The author finds that the Indian trucking industry enjoys economies of scale for distances below 1,000 kilometres. In the United States, as in the UK and India, there is no evidence of economies of scales in the bus industry.
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RK Koshal (1972) studied this question.
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