Regionalization and Cross-Border Transport -Empirical Study on Thailand and Malaysia

抄録

Regionalization is a common trend in the world economy, which is represented by increase in intra-regional and intra-industry trade. And, Cross-Border Transport (CBT) needs to be facilitated to improve connectivity and competitiveness of the region. This study aims to show the process and factors of the CBT evolution with empirical data. The case of CBT over land between Thailand and Malaysia is focused as one of the advanced example in Asia. From the macro analysis of trade statistics, it was revealed that the CBT increases by active trades between divided production processes in general and electric machinery industries. For the microscopic analysis of companies? modal choice, Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) was applied. It was found that reliability of transport service was evaluated more or equally important as cost. Desirability of land transport was evaluated lower in some or all sub-attributes of reliability.