The present paper aims to analyse interregional freight transport movements in Europe in order to forecast spatio-temporal patterns of new transport economic scenarios.In view of the high dimension of our data-base on transport flows, two different approaches are compared, viz. the logit model...

The paper focuses on the Trans Alpine Freight Transport systems in the light of the future integration of single national transport systems into the European transport network. The environmental, social and institutional peculiarities of this 'region' have favoured - in the past - the...

Introduction -- The rise of the shipping container -- Containerization as infrastructure -- Globalizing the infrastructure of the nation-state -- The reluctant railroads -- Trucking gets on board -- The changing railroads -- Trucking finds its place -- Sites of transfer -- Slow going on the...