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- The objective of this thesis is to study the potential development of Short Sea Shipping in Europe at the expense of road transport. After analyzing the different concepts of Short Sea Shipping and several models published in the literature review part, Nodus was chosen as the model to perform the quantitative analysis of road and Short Sea Shipping flows in Europe. In the context of cost optimization, Nodus shows that 21.43% of freight can be shifted from road to Short Sea Shipping. This work also analyzes, using Nodus software and data, the environmental, economic and temporal impacts that a shift from road to Short Sea Shipping could generate. A comparison is made between the current situation and the situation observed during the cost optimization. It is found that the economic impact decreases by 8.57%, the environmental impact decreases by 29.06% and the temporal impact increases by 7.45%. A model with two explanatory variables, cost and travel time, is then constructed. With this model, it is observed that a smaller increase in cost leads to the same change of transfer with the cost optimization logic.