Short Sea Shipping in North America: Understanding the Requirements of Atlantic Canadian Shippers

This paper examines the potential for short sea shipping services on the East Coast of North America, focuses on the factors that freight shippers use to choose a transport mode. While there is a significant literature available on modal choice and carrier selection, very little of it examines the effect of splitting the business on the choice that shippers specifically make between short sea and trucking options. Contrary to existing literature, the authors find that shippers’ perceptions of short sea are favorable in this market. The authors also identifies a new method of collecting data on how companies split business in these decisions.

• Corporate Authors:

  World Conference on Transport Research Society

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• Authors:
  • Brooks, Mary R
  • Trifts, Valerie
• Conference:
  • 11th World Conference on Transport Research
  • Location: Berkeley CA, United States
  • Date: 2007-6-24 to 2007-6-28
• Publication Date: 2007

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: CD-ROM
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 29p
• Monograph Title: 11th World Conference on Transport Research

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Freight transportation; Modal split; Mode choice; Short sea shipping; Trucking
• Uncontrolled Terms: Shippers
• Geographic Terms: North America
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Freight Transportation; Marine Transportation; I10: Economics and Administration;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01117486
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Dec 30 2008 12:32PM