Critical Review of freight Transport Demand Models

Abstract

The importance of freight transport for today's society neednot be underlined. Yet, rather few attempts have been made inorder to model freight transport demand in a quite "original"and appropriate way, especially if the literature on freight transportis compared with lhe huge amount of works done on passengertransport.The aim of lhe paper is twofold: firs/, a seleclive survey isconducted on the issue of freighttransporl demand modelling,also from an "evolutionary" standpoint; second, such a body ofliterature is arranged in order to provide an original classificationof available models.