The past decade has seen many new freight transport models for use in transport planning
by public authorities. Some of these models have developed new concepts, such as logistics …

In the transport planning process, decision makers require reliable and informative
appraisals to facilitate comparisons and determine if a proposal is worthwhile to society. The …

Freight transport demand is a demand derived from all the activities needed to move goods
between locations of production to locations of consumption, including trade, logistics and …

High-Speed Rail (HSR) has experienced a rapid development in many countries in the
world, but how can planners and decision makers better understand the regional economic …

Two modern approaches to development policy have recently evolved and disputed with
each other, namely, the space-neutral and the place-based approaches. Perhaps the most …

In this paper we have hard-linked a bottom-up energy system model (TIMES) and a top-
down computable general equilibrium model (REMES) in order to analyze both the energy …

Most freight transport models that are used by national, international, and regional
authorities are lacking important aspects of logistics decision-making such as the choice of …

At different policy levels, from local to European, the concept of competitiveness is used to
stimulate or promote a region. Often it is assumed that regions can compete with each other …

In the transport policy development process, four-step models are commonly used to
estimate transport costs and flows based on representations of travel demands and …

This chapter provides an overview of the state-of-the-art in international and inter-regional
freight demand modelling. It pays particular attention to the differences between the …