Some necessary conditions for the success of innovations in rail freight transport

Paolo Ferrari

Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 2018, vol. 118, issue C, 747-758

Abstract: This paper presents a model of competition between road and rail for freight transport, which supposes that the cost of road transport is increasing function of flow, while that of railway is decreasing function, because of the innovations implemented to reverse the rail decline. The model studies the evolution over time of the proportions of freight flow carried by the two transport modes, and identifies the conditions in which the rail transport innovations are successful. The model has been applied to the study of the evolution of the competition between road and rail for freight transport through the Swiss Alps.

Keywords: Freight transport; Modal split evolution; Fixed points; Competition; Dynamic cost functions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1016/j.tra.2018.10.020

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