11 - Mode choice

Abstract

Intermodal transportation planning and management make decisions on the choice of transportation modes, routes, and carriers. The choice of land, water, and air transportation modes considers several factors, including costs, capability, product value, and customer needs. In addition, these modes of transportation can influence decision-making depending on the choice of route and the types of cargo. For high-value products, fast and safe will take precedence over cost. However, products such as grain and coal will choose cheaper, mass-carrying modes rather than speedier transportation. Even if a transportation mode is selected, it may be changed depending on the available capacity to accommodate this carrier at the destination and the relevant infrastructure. Therefore, this chapter examines regression analysis and logit regression models for analyzing the behavior of selecting this mode of transportation. This logit regression also discusses the models of binary logit, multinomial logit, nested logit, and mixed logit models.