WP4: Multi-modal Pricing Issues   Task 4.1: Multimodal Pricing Analyses - Inception Report   Task 4.2: Multimodal Pricing Analyses - EU Country Comparisons   Task 4.3: Multimodal Pricing Analyses - Multi-modal Meta Model   Task 4.4: Multimodal Pricing Analyses - Decision Support Model

The objectives of the multimodal transport pricing analyses - led by AMRIE - are: Develop satisfactory cost and pricing structures and information sets to enable appropriate business decisions to be made and supporting public policy decisions to be considered for multi-modality to become a valid and accepted transport operation. Develop ‘models’ which will be capable of adjustment in line with changing economic conditions, alterations in market structures and dynamics, and policy initiatives. Produce business decision-support models for participants in the freight transport market. Develop a tool to show whether door-to-door sea shipping in reality is more or less expensive to use than other transport modes. The examination will be made from the perspective of the transport user and base itself on real average prices. Markets will be researched and real prices quoted on a number of corridors in Europe. Price components will need to be identified and an average price attached to each component, together with an appropriate sum of those prices for the whole chain.