Budi Purwanto Primary Author Muhammad Rifni Primary Author Salahuddin Rafi Primary Author

This paper is aims to find out the preferred behavior of logistic business actors for using dry-port with rail-transport. The methodology of research was conducted by field survey randomly to logistic entrepreneurs in big cities at around java with rail-network facilities, find the behavior of dry-port users for train reaching is less of numbers expectation, the remaining ispreferring use transport by road. This research limitation just taking respondents as many as 214 respondents, each of participants is considered to have same of knowledge about dry-port on transportedthem owned of goods, and expect of respondents to be representative the population. Finally founded the tendency of logistic business actors in java to choose road/truck-transport in goods distribution activities, so have opportunity to use trains is still open, but it takes understanding and hard work to convince logistic actors.