Freight transport modelling

The on-going globalisation and the increasing demand for flexibility in modern businesses have made transport, together with business logistics, a major functional domain. Transport growth is essentially for economic growth but is not without negative impacts. External effects such as pollution, congestion, accidents and damage to infrastructure generate considerable social costs that impose a heavy burden on society. This title addresses the need to develop new freight transport models and scientific tools to provide sound solutions that consider the wide range of internal and external impacts. The international contributions push forward frontiers in freight transport modelling and analysis.

Recent Developments in Freight Transport Modelling / Moshe Ben-Akiva and Hilde Meersman and Eddy Van de Voorde -- Global (International) -- The Relationship between Economic Activity and Freight Transport / Hilde Meersman, Eddy Van de Voorde -- A Multimodal Elastic Trade Coefficients MRIO Model for Freight Demand in Europe / Ennio Cascetta (et al.) -- The Aggregate-Disaggregate-Aggregate (ADA) Freight Model System / Moshe Ben-Akiva, Gerard de Jong -- Dynamic Optimization and Differential Stackelberg Game Applied to Freight Transport / Terry L. Friesz, Amir H. Meimand, Bo Zhang -- Regional -- Discrete Choice Analysis of Shippers' Preferences / Moshe Ben-Akiva, Denis Bolduc, Jay Q. Park -- A Comparison of Conjoint, Multi-Criteria, Conditional Logit and Neural Network Analyses for Rank-Ordered Preference Data / Michel Beuthe (et al.) -- Modelling the Emergence of Spatiotemporal Structures in Commodity Transport / Gernot Liedtke, Stefan Schröder, Li Zhang -- Accounting for WTP/WTA Discrepancy in Discrete Choice Models: Discussion of Policy Implications Based on Two Freight Transport Stated Choice Experiments / Lorenzo Masiero, Rico Maggi -- Endogenous Shipment Size in Freight Mode Cho…