ABSTRACT
The analysis of goods movements traditionally has been neglected in the transport-planning process. The evaluation of the consequences of different courses of action would be the object of behavioural modelling in the goods-movement area. Behavioural modelling as a specific subcategory of modelling is concerned with decision processes which involve the evaluation of perceived alternatives. The freight transport sector can be viewed from two major concerns, namely from the planning or regulatory context of social efficiency and from a private efficiency point of view. After careful scrutiny of the goods-movement process, it was concluded that for analysis and modelling purposes, a distinction between intra- and inter-urban is not meaningful or useful. In order to proceed to the specification of individual-choice models to be developed in the course of future research activities, it is necessary to identify the determinants of choices confronted by shippers, operators and receivers.
