Proceedings of ICLT 2014
TRADE AND TRANSPORT TRENDS OF FOOD AND LIVE ANIMAL FOR ASIA-EUROPE-AFRICA
Manouchehr Vaziri; Bahador Ghadiri
Department of Civil Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran; Department of Civil Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
International Conference on Logistics & Transport 2014, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, pp. 14-19
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Abstract
In this paper, food and live animal trade and transportation trends for the three continents of Asia, Europe and Africa, AEA, were analyzed. For the study area a multimodal network was defined and deployed. Using pertinent national spatial socioeconomic data, distribution models reflecting international trade models were developed. The models facilitated identification of possible relations between trade and transportation during four decades covering the period of 1965-2005. Preliminary statistical analyses and gravity modeling determined GDP and transportation variables as more significant factors influencing trade among several database candidate variables. The coefficients of gravity models, reflecting the negative elasticity's of trade with respect to transportation, often showed increasing sensitivity or absolute values through time. During the study period, the comparison between optimal trade distributions, based on linear programming, and their observed distributions, showed significant differences. Further study of the AEA food and live animal trades can enhance trade policy development and resource allocation.
Keywords
Food and live animal trade; multimodal transport; trade modeling; gravity modeling; linear programming; Asia; Europe and Africa
Citation
Manouchehr Vaziri; Bahador Ghadiri (2014). TRADE AND TRANSPORT TRENDS OF FOOD AND LIVE ANIMAL FOR ASIA-EUROPE-AFRICA. Proceedings of the International Conference on Logistics & Transport (ICLT 2014), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, pp. 14-19.