Freight Transportation Demand Elasticities: A Geographic Multimodal Transportation Network Analysis
(2001) Transportation Research. Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review — Vol. 37, p. 253-266 (2001)
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- (en) In order to limit the external costs caused by the use of trucks multi- and intermodal transport are promoted in various ways. One way to partly shift transport demand on trains and barges is to introduce a pricing/taxation policy which takes into account these external costs for the different modes. The effects of such a policy are obviously dependent upon the way demand for the various modes is sensitive to variation of tariffs. There are very few estimates of direct and crossed price-elasticities available in the literature, particularly if different markets, i.e. different categories of goods, are taken into account. Moreover, existing estimates are obtained through sophisticated yet conventional statistical methods that do not directly cope with the topology of a given network. This paper presents estimates which have been computed for ten different categories of goods with a detailed multimodal network model based on a particular methodology that permits a thorough analysis of
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Louvain School of Management Accounting & Finance
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Beuthe, M., Geerts, J.-F., Koul à Ndjang’ha, C., & Jourquin, B. (2001). Freight Transportation Demand Elasticities: A Geographic Multimodal Transportation Network Analysis. Transportation Research. Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 37, 253-266. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1366-5545(00)00022-3 (Original work published 2001)