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The abstract for paper number 546:
Kenneth Button, Scholl of Public Policy, George Mason University
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Can Freight Transport Models be Transferred across the Atlantic?
Meta analysis and value transfers have become an accepted means of economizing on data and speeding up the analysis in such areas as transport forecasting and assessment. Most of this work has concerned passenger movements (e.g., in terms of travel-time savings values) or the external effects of transport (e.g., noise valuations). The work done in the freight sector is limited. Recent years have seen a considerable increase in the number and sophistication of studies that have sought to explore changing structures in freight movement. Some of these changes have been in the way that freight activities are viewed in themselves (e.g., because of the focus on just-in-time production) but in other cases because of wider structural and institutional changes in economies (e.g., in communications, production technologies and in economic regulation). The issue addressed here is initially whether these sorts of technique can readily be applied to freight transportation and then on whether, in light of the very changes that are taking place, there is scope for deploying models developed for more advanced systems to be transferred elsewhere. The potential for transference across the Atlantic forms the basis for much of this assessment. The examination is less concerned about the usefulness of value transfers than with the usefulness of model transfers. This has implications not only for analysis, but from a larger policy point of view if models are similar the this would indicate greater ease in developing global supply chains.
Unfortunately full paper has not been submitted.