期刊名称:Cuadernos de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales
印刷版ISSN:0211-4356
出版年度:2005
卷号:2005
期号:48
出版社:Universidad de Málaga
摘要:Despite the widely recognized significance of freight transport for a region’s
economy, the field of transportation science has focused traditionally on the analytical
modeling of passenger systems, relegating the analysis of freight transportation.
This paper reviews the methodological framework underlying freight transportation
demand analysis, from the microeconomic perspective. Particularly, it presents the
different types of models available and their corresponding econometric method of
estimation. In order to The exposition concludes with a comparative evaluation of the
price-elasticity estimates obtained in the reviewed papers.