Investigating the Effect of Freight Salons on Road Freight Prices

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Pourtaheri, Khashayar | 2020

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Type of Document: M.Sc. Thesis
Language: Farsi
Document No: 53201 (44)
University: Sharif University of Technology
Department: Management and Economics
Advisor(s): Madanizadeh, Ali; Joshaghani, Hossein
Abstract:
In this research, the price effects of freight announcement salons in the road freight transportation market of Iran have been investigated. The road freight market in Iran has witnessed numerous protests by drivers in recent years. One of the main demands of this group was to establish freight salons in terminals lacking that. Contrary to the opinion of drivers, who believe that freight salons increase parity and remove intermediaries, freight companies believe that this policy reduces competition and quality and increases freight prices. In this study, using the information of waybills (“Baarnameh”) at transaction level, we show that the presence of freight announcement salons increases the transportation price by approximately 13% also reduces the price dispersion by approximately 9% of standard deviation. These results also show that freight salons increase the minimum and decrease the maximum of road freight prices by approximately 21 and 11 percent, respectively
Keywords:
Road Freight Price ; Iran Freight Market ; Freight Services Supply ; Freight Services Demand ; Freight Announcement Salon ; Freight Demand

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