The aim of this Workpackage is to analyse the main parameters that
influence the values of internal and external, fixed and variable costs for the different
transport activities and thereby provide a basis for understanding the representativeness
of potential study corridors in the context of Europe as a whole.
A general analysis will be carried out on the main European routes used
in intermodal transport in order to build a reference scenario on the current state of
intermodal transport market in Europe. In the second phase of WP2 the methodological tool
prepared in the first phase will be applied to the potential corridors and nodes that will
be investigated in detail in WP3, WP4 and WP5.
Task 2.1
Methodology for the analysis of the mechanisms of cost and price formation in intermodal
transport
The first purpose of this task is to demonstrate the influence of
different factors concerning both supply and demand aspects on the costs and on the price
formation of door to door transport chains including intermodal transport.
A general analysis on the current state of intermodal transport in
Europe will be carried out in order to build a reference scenario for the selection of
representative corridors. The methodology for the analysis of the mechanisms of cost and
price formation in intermodal transport will be focused on the relationship between supply
factors and cost formation in order to examine the influence on price formation of such
factors as organisational and infrastructure problematic, monopolies, oligopolies, entry
barriers, law restrictions, cross subsidisation and incentives in corridors and nodes.
The most important interrelationships among market structure and costs
and prices for different modes will be examined in order to identify any possible
divergence between costs and market prices. The approach will consider also the demand
factors influencing cost formation such as the scale of traffic movements, the mix of
different modes, the directional balance of traffic flows.
Task 2.2
Analysis of costs formation in the selected corridors and nodes
The aim of this task is to apply the methodological tool that has been
studied in Task 2.1 to those corridors initially
identified as worthy of study: the freight freeways between Brindisi -Verona - Munich and
Hamburg, the tri-modal transport chain on the corridor between Genova, Basel, Antwerp and
Manchester and the door-to door intermodal chain along the corridor Barcelona - Lyon -
Torino - Trieste - Koper - Ljiubliana -Budapest -Warsaw. The purpose of this task is to
evaluate in detail the technical, organisational, commercial and political critical
aspects both from the supply and demand sides that influence the resource costs and prices
formation in these corridors. Task 2.2 will emphasised the possible discrepancies between
the ideal cost structure analysed in WP1 and Task 2.1 and the current situation.
The purpose of Task 2.2 is to evaluate in detail the technical,
organisational, commercial and political critical aspects both from the supply and demand
sides that influence the resource costs and prices formation in this corridor using the
methodology proposed in Task 2.1
Together with the results of WP1, the expected
output of this WP will serve as the methodological reference for understanding the current
situation of costs and prices, and highlight the critical aspects thereof (political,
technical, commercial, organisational) and validation of the choice of selected
corridors and preliminary analysis of their representativeness.
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