Review of Behavioral Model for Shippers’ Freight Transport Choice

Abstract:

As one important method of freight demand analysis, behavioral models allows researchers to describe the characteristics of shipper’s freight service choice behavior and forecast the market demand of different freight service, so they are widely applied to evaluate the expected effect of freight transportation infrastructures and policy actions. After reviewing 46 documents since 2000, this paper sorts out them based on the research theme of disaggregate behavioral freight model and analyzes their theory basis, modeling process and data sources. Then it elaborates the methods and results of these literatures from the perspective of identifying the factors influencing shipper’s choice behavior, forecasting the potential market share and estimating the quality attributes value of freight service. Finally, it discusses the shortcomings of exist literatures and puts forward some issues to be further studied.