Cost-calculator tools, as described

Cost-calculator tools, as described in Appendix A, provide both data and the
instrument to facilitate the calculation. A formal assessment of the available tools
is necessary prior to selecting those that will be used in corridor benchmarking.
Relative unit costs
Relative unit costs are expressed in € per ton-kilometre for the entire stretch
from the loading node to discharging node. Relative unit costs are obtained by
dividing the Absolute unit costs by that Distance of the entire stretch.
Stakeholders who are concerned about these KPIs obviously include carriers,
shippers, logistics operators, terminal operators, producers and consumers at large.
That set of KPIs is important to virtually all stakeholders. Perhaps environmental
stakeholders would consider the KPIs here to be of lesser significance (vis-à-vis
environmental criteria), but this does not mean that they are irrelevant.