European Common Transport Policy and Short‐Sea Shipping: Empirical Evidence Based on Modal Choice Models

L. García‐Menéndez and M. Feo‐Valero

Transport Reviews, 2008, vol. 29, issue 2, 239-259

Abstract: This article aims to find the determinants of mode choice decisions for Spanish full lorry and full container loads shipments to the rest of Europe in four productive sectors: agroindustry, ceramic tiles, motor vehicle parts and household appliances. To this end exhaustive fieldwork was carried out and a database constructed, including 507 observations collected from transport decision‐makers. A binary logit is used to estimate a modal choice model where the two modes considered are road transport and Short‐Sea Shipping. The estimation of the model stresses the importance of a politico‐economic evaluation of how to modify the modal split, paying particular attention to the role that can be attributed to a series of variables going beyond cost and time, which address the increasing complexity of sectorial logistics chains.

Date: 2008
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DOI: 10.1080/01441640802357192

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