Estimation of Daily Vehicle Flows for Urban Freight Deliveries
Publication: Journal of Urban Planning and Development
Volume 138, Issue 1
Abstract
Given its contribution to congestion, pollution, and energy consumption and the complex and changing characteristics of delivery routes, the modeling of urban freight transport is a difficult, highly data-demanding and often unreliable task. Extending other previous works that focused only on the morning peak hour, the authors have developed a trip generation model by using the available data to their maximum extent and adding other parameters that can be found through simple surveys. This trip generation model is then included as part of a four-stage process, with the trip distribution solved through entropy maximization and resulting in the estimation of an origin-destination matrix for freight transport in a city. The application to a case study in the city of Seville and the validation with on-street vehicle counts shows reasonably robust results and provides a simple and effective tool to analyze urban freight deliveries from a macroscopic point of view.
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Acknowledgments
The authors wish to acknowledge the financial support of this research by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (Projects UNSPECIFIEDDPI2008-06476 and UNSPECIFIEDTRA2007-67181/MODAL).
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Journal of Urban Planning and Development
Volume 138 • Issue 1 • March 2012
Pages: 43 - 52
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© 2012 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Received: Oct 19, 2010
Accepted: Jul 18, 2011
Published online: Jul 20, 2011
Published in print: Mar 1, 2012
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