This paper presents an analysis of which functional form of Travel Time Value is appropriate to the estimation with binomial logit random factors model. In order to do this, it will make an estimation methods overview, describing some structured functional forms as Tuong and Hensher (1985) for...

The Brazilian ports are out of capacity, imposing several restrictions to the sector expansion. Some investments have been made, but without improvements in the situation. Ports around the world seems to have the same problem. One of the aspect that implies in this situation are the forecast...

To address the need for a better understanding of cooperation, coordination and competition among transportation modes identified by various research studies, this paper sets out to analyze port-railroad relations of cooperation and coordination in the Brazilian case and the possible existence...

The duality between cost and production function can be a key point to explore regulation process in Agent-Principal model because the Principal observes outputs in inputs and has asymmetric information about the cost by the Agent. This paper investigates the properties of production functions...

This article analyses the main determinants of income per capita based on a sample of 50 countries for the period 2005 to 2009, using multivariate statistics. The results show that institutional indicators (heterodox) have a greater impact on the welfare of the population than the traditional...

This article analyses the main determinants of income per capita based on a sample of 50 countries for the period 2005 to 2009, using multivariate statistics. The results show that institutional indicators (heterodox) have a greater impact on the welfare of the population than the traditional...