Analyzing the Determinants of Freight Shippers’ Behavior: Own-Account versus Purchased Transport in Andalusia

Cristina Borra () and Luis Palma Martos ()
Additional contact information
Luis Palma Martos: Universidad de Sevilla

No E2004/76, Economic Working Papers at Centro de Estudios Andaluces from Centro de Estudios Andaluces

Abstract: Previous work in the demand for freight transportation has focused in the rail-truck substitution problem, leaving aside the prior own-account versus third-party tradeoff, often found in transportation decision-making. In Andalusia, domestic freight transport takes place mostly by road, an important part of which is own-account transport. The purpose of this paper is to analyze shippers’ behavior relative to this question, paying particular attention to whether the decision to use a private form of transport is taken on a short term or on a medium term horizon. In order to provide a quantitative evaluation, as an illustrative case, the models developed are tested on data gathered by means of a sample survey conducted to Andalusian enterprises belonging to the food industry.

Keywords: Freight transport demand; shippers’ behavior; discrete-choice models; own-account transport. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: R41 C35 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-dcm and nep-geo
Date: 2004
View list of references

Downloads: (external link)
http://public.centrodeestudiosandaluces.es/pdfs/E200476.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: http://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:cea:doctra:e2004_76

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Economic Working Papers at Centro de Estudios Andaluces from Centro de Estudios Andaluces
Address: c/ Bailén 50. 41001 Sevilla
Contact information at EDIRC.
Series data maintained by Teresa Rodríguez ().