Michel Mouchart and Marie Vandresse, "Bargaining Powers and Market
Segmentation in Freight Transport", Journal of Applied Econometrics,
Vol. 22, No. 7, 2007, pp. 1295-1313.

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The target population gathers freight contracts, the demand for which is
made by Belgian companies of medium and large size (minimum 20 employees).
The sampling frame is an exhaustive list of such companies, extracted from
BELFIRST, a data base established for the Belgian National Bank. These data
were collected by face-to-face interviews during which the interviewee was
asked to describe a typical contract, in the class of freight transports
starting from Belgium with destination within Europe, excluding air and
maritime transports.

Sample size: 91

Each row corresponds to a firm, and each column to a variable. The variables
are the following:

- price: price of the transport (EUR/ton*km)
- relia: reliability, namely the percentage of time the goods are
         delivered within the required time
- flex : flexibility, namely the percentage of time that unexpected
         demands are met by the carrier
- speed: The door to door transport time (including loading and unloading)
         divided by the distance.

Corresponding author:

Marie Vandresse
Institut de démographie
Place Montesqueiy 1, boite 17
1348 Louvain-la-Neuve
Belgium

Tel.: + 32 10 47 93 06
Fax: + 32 10 47 29 52
E-mail : vandresse [AT] demo.ucl.ac.be