The Potential Demand for a Urban Freight Consolidation Centre

Urban freight consolidation centers (UFCCs) have been proposed as a way to decrease van and truck traffic in central business districts while preserving the economic sustainability of urban businesses. This paper summarizes a stated-preference study aimed at investigating how transport decisions are made by receivers or by transport operators and to predict the share of consignments that would be delivered by a UFCC in Fano, Italy. A stated-choice methodology is used because there are no revealed preference data. The stated-choice experiments present two alternatives--one using a private vehicle subject to various traffic regulations and one using the urban freight consolidation centre with varying cost and efficiency levels. Conventional discrete choice data modeling shows that the potential demand is influenced mainly by the distance of the parking bay from the shop, by access permit cost, by the service cost of the urban freight consolidation centre, and by the delay in delivery time. Simulations are then performed to assess how the potential demand is affected by various incentives and regulations affecting urban goods distribution. Finding suggest that businesses such as garment related businesses that do not require specific and sophisticated logistic performances and services show a higher propensity to use the UFCC than businesses that need a higher quality and frequency from their logistics operations.

• Record URL:
  https://doi.org/10.1007/s11116-007-9147-3
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• Authors:
  • Marcucci, Edoardo
  • Danielis, Romeo
• Publication Date: 2008-3

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 269-284
• Serial:
  • Transportation
  • Volume: 35
  • Issue Number: 2
  • Publisher: Springer
  • ISSN: 0049-4488
  • EISSN: 1572-9435
  • Serial URL: http://link.springer.com/journal/11116

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Central business districts; Choice models; Demand; Freight traffic; Logistics; Simulation; Stated preferences
• Uncontrolled Terms: Freight consolidation; Urban freight consolidation centers
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Freight Transportation; Public Transportation;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01091383
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Apr 23 2008 9:22AM