The Trade-and-Transport Dataset provides rich new opportunities for analysis in the light of growing disruptions and fundamental longer-term changes in the global logistics system.
This technical paper presents the concepts, sources and methods behind the Trade-and-Transport Dataset, an extended and enhanced version of the Global Transport Costs Dataset for International Trade developed by UNCTAD and the World Bank, available on the UNCTAD Data Hub.
The paper is structured as follows:
- Chapter I introduces the topic, provides background and reviews previous approaches and datasets.
- Chapter II provides an overview of the dataset, introducing the meanings of the different variables contained in it and presenting some global patterns and trends it reveals.
- Chapter III describes the data sources used.
- Chapter IV outlines the overall compilation process.
- Chapter V describes the pre-processing step applied to UN Comtrade data to prepare them for estimations and further processing.
- Chapter VI describes the econometric models.
- Chapter VII describes how the final dataset is built.
- Chapter VIII provides final remarks.