Carrier or mode?
The dilemma of shippers’ choice in freight modelling
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2013-07
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What choice alternatives do shippers actually have when shipping their products to a customer: do they choose among a number of transport solutions offered to them by transport service providers with certain service characteristics, or is it a choice between physical transport modes (e.g. road, rail, intermodal transport etc.)? These questions arise regularly in freight demand modelling, when Stated Preference (SP) experiments are carried out to investigate shippers’ behaviour in transport chain organisation. Most research published so far has focussed on transport mode choice, whereas more recent projects have considered choice of transport service provider and service specifications and not transport mode explicitly. Both approaches seem justified depending on the specific research question. This report describes an SP experiment designed to quantify the impact of environmental aspects on the choice of freight transport services. Since the choice of transport mode has an impact on emissions, a combined approached was selected, which integrates both, transport mode and service criteria (i.e. punctuality, transit time, and emissions) as characteristic choice elements.
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43
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IVT, ETH Zurich
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Freight transportation; Freight demand modelling; Transport mode choice; Stated Preference (SP)
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03521 - Axhausen, Kay W. (emeritus) / Axhausen, Kay W. (emeritus)
02226 - NSL - Netzwerk Stadt und Landschaft / NSL - Network City and Landscape
02655 - Netzwerk Stadt u. Landschaft ARCH u BAUG / Network City and Landscape ARCH and BAUG
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Has part: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11850/64701