RESEARCH INTO THE POSSIBILITIES FOR INTRODUCING AN INNOVATIVE FREIGHT TRANSPORT

Due to a rapid increase in the volume of freight traffic especially in cities, urban centers suffer from acute traffic congestion. Deterioration of roadside environment has also been widely observed. There is a limit, however, as to how much of these problems can be mitigated within the context of current distribution system, which sorely depends on manned vehicles using internal-combustion-engine that operate above ground. There is an urgent need to develop a new, more sophisticated goods distribution system to significantly change the status quo. This dissertation explores the possibility of adopting an ITS (Intelligent Transport System) system in which electric-vehicles are operated in underground tunnels. Using the Tokyo words as a case study area, a traffic simulation and a cost-benefit analysis on this New Freight Transport System are conducted. For the covering abstract see ITRD E114174.

• Corporate Authors:

  ERTICO

  326 Avenue Louis
  Brussels,   Belgium  B-1050

  ITS America

  1100 17th Street, NW, 12th Floor
  Washington, DC  United States  20036

  VERTIS

  TORANOMOM 34 MORI BUILDING 1-25-5
  TORANOMON, MINATOKU, TOKYO 105  Japan 
• Authors:
  • Takahashi, Y
  • IMANISHI, Y
  • KASIMA, S
• Conference:
  • PROCEEDINGS OF THE 7TH WORLD CONGRESS ON INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS
  • Location: Turin , Italy
  • Date: 2000-11-6 to 2000-11-9
• Publication Date: 2000

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: 8 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Benefit cost analysis; Conferences; Electric vehicles; Freight transportation; Intelligent transportation systems; Simulation; Tunnels; Underground structures; Urban areas
• Uncontrolled Terms: Subterranean
• Geographic Terms: Japan
• ITRD Terms: 8525: Conference; 226: Cost benefit analysis; 1282: Electric vehicle; 1112: Freight transport; 8735: Intelligent transport system; 8053: Japan; 9103: Simulation; 4372: Subterranean; 3374: Tunnel; 313: Urban area
• Subject Areas: Bridges and other structures; Energy; Freight Transportation; Operations and Traffic Management;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00937561
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
• Files: ITRD
• Created Date: Feb 5 2003 12:00AM