Distribution and production in the Philadelphia Area

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Identifikator:: 1828226742

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-217445

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Distribution and production in the Philadelphia Area

Place of publication:: Philadelphia, Pa.

Publisher:: Philadelphia Business Progress Association

Year of publication:: 1930

Scope:: 13 Seiten

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Therefore Philadelphia has the position unique among all of these seaboard cities, of being con- tignous to all of the great markets. It is the great entral area among the great areas. That is its insuperable advantage as a distribution point. The area lying between the Mississippi and the Rockies is not of great importance as a consuming area, considered relatively to the rest of the country. As to the West Coast market area, Philadelphia’s great tidewater port places it in position equivalent to that of Denver, Colo., in respect to freight rates to the west coast. That is to say, the twenty-nine sailings per month from the Port of Philadelphia to west coast points give water freight rates lower than the rail rates from Denver, Colo., to the west coast. Putting it in another way, Philadelphia is nearer io the southern and western markets than New York, and nearer to the northern (including New England) market than Baltimore. The three trunk- line railroads and their connections serving Phila- delphia provide more trains to the west than any sastern seaboard city has except New York, whose trains are equalled in number and surpassed as to ‘ime. It should be recalled that the country’s largest railroad strikes west from Philadelphia. Possessing these distribution facilities, it has the ‘urther inestimable advantage of lacking the con- zestion which prevails in the New York area, the only Atlantic Coast center whose domestic distribu- tion facilities are equal. Production It may have been noted that in In the the title of this booklet the dis- Aven tribution from the Philadelphia Area has been mentioned before the production, which is per- 1aps a departure from the usual order. That was lone because this is primarily a study of distribu- tion. Consideration of distribution, however, is not somplete unless’it be accompanied by consideration of production. Each acts as a complement to the sther. That is, any area which has exceptional dis- ribution facilities should have exceptional produc- tion. Conversely, if an area have small production, it is likely to be lacking in distribution facilities. The production of the Philadelphia Area is as impressive in its field as distribution in its, as will oe seen by reference to the data given later. Study of these data has disclosed several interesting facts. For instance, the territory which can be reached >vernight from Philadelphia by motor truck lines operating scheduled routes, which is called the Jvernight Trucking Area in these studies, embraces 1 population which has a spendable income equal ‘0 the total spendable income of sixteen states, 1amely, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Cennessee, Kentucky, West Virginia, Ohio, Indi- ina, Louisiana, Arkansas and Oklahoma. It is an: sther interesting fact that the building permits issued annually within the Overnight Trucking Area ‘almost exactly equal in value the aggregate of those issued in the above states. Method In making its studies of distri- of bution from the Philadelphia Stud center, the Research Depart- y ment of the Philadelphia Busi- ness Progress Association based its inquiries on the various means of transportation and the territory reachable by each within certain ‘ime limits. The first step was determination of the Phila- lelphia Metropolitan Area. Facilities of distribu- ion within a metropolitan district are so well anderstood that there is no necessity of reviewing them here. Supplementary to the Metropolitan Area is the territory which is not a homogeneous city for every- day purposes but which comprises the section in which Philadelphia is more readily accessible by railroad or highway travel than any other metro- politan center. This is the territory which depends on Philadelphia for the bulk of its important buy- ing and is given the name of Market Area. Next in range is the territory which may be reached from Philadelphia by motor truck over scheduled routes between the close of every busi- aess day and the opening of the next. This is identified as the Overnight Trucking Area. Extending beyond this territory are the .zones which are reached by railroad freight, defined on he basis of Second, Third and Fourth Day Freight Areas. Finally comes the Steamship Freight Area, which carries the distribution system of Philadel- phia to all corners of the earth. Mana

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