Modeling Freight Delivery Flows: Missing Link of Urban Transport Analysis
Publication: Journal of Urban Planning and Development
Volume 135, Issue 3
Abstract
Urban freight transport has barely incited any modeling efforts when compared to passenger cars and public transport, which is mainly due to the lack of available data and the complexity of the delivery route patterns and the involved decision making. We present here a modeling approach consisting of a demand model followed by an entropy maximization procedure to estimate an origin-destination matrix for urban freight transport vehicles, both for business to business and home deliveries, during the morning peak hour. This approach requires relatively few data inputs in comparison with other existing models and represents an initial step toward the inclusion of freight delivery models in overall urban transport planning. The application of the model is illustrated with a case study in the city of Seville, with its efficiency tested by the validation of the results using actual traffic counts.
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Acknowledgments
The writers thank the anonymous reviewers for their comments, which have both contributed to enhance the quality of the paper and provided some issues for further research on the topic. We also acknowledge the financial support provided by the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science, through its program on transport and logistics (Project Ref. No. UNSPECIFIEDTRA2007-67181/MODAL).
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Journal of Urban Planning and Development
Volume 135 • Issue 3 • September 2009
Pages: 91 - 99
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© 2009 ASCE.
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Received: Oct 1, 2008
Accepted: Mar 6, 2009
Published online: Mar 26, 2009
Published in print: Sep 2009
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