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Recent developments in national and international freight transport models within Europe

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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 modules, inclusion of transshipments, storage and sourcing and the determination of shipment size. This paper provides a review of the European literature on freight transport models that operate at the national or international level and have been developed since 2004. The introduction of elements of logistics thinking is identified as a common theme in recently developed models, and further worked out. Furthermore, ideas on what might be the next key developments in freight transport modelling are presented.

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The authors would like to thank the participants of the CTS-Seminar on European and National Freight Transport Models in Stockholm on 1 March 2011 for their inputs and anonymous reviewers as well as the editor in chief for their useful comments on earlier versions of this paper.

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  1. Centre for Transport Research, VTI/KTH, Stockholm, Sweden

    Gerard de Jong & Inge Vierth

  2. Institute for Transport Studies, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK

    Gerard de Jong

  3. Significance, Koninginnegracht 23, 2514 AB, Den Haag, The Netherlands

    Gerard de Jong

  4. TNO, Delft, The Netherlands

    Lori Tavasszy

  5. Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands

    Lori Tavasszy

  6. MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA

    Moshe Ben-Akiva

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de Jong, G., Vierth, I., Tavasszy, L. et al. Recent developments in national and international freight transport models within Europe. Transportation 40, 347–371 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11116-012-9422-9

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