FREIGHT FACILITIES FOR CENTRAL BUSINESS DISTRICT OFFICE BUILDINGS

Inadequate end-point facilities in office buildings for shipping and receiving freight are partly due to a lack of understanding of the urban goods movement problem by architects and engineers and partly due to inadequate municipal freight facility by-laws. Because of the wide range of environmental, social and economic impacts imposed on an urban area by inadequate freight facilities, engineers involved with the planning, design and approval of office buildings must take a comprehensive view of the factors that should be considered in the design and operation of office building freight facilities. This paper is based on a study conducted by the Department of Civil Engineering of the University of Calgary for the City of Calgary Transportation Department. The study, which included measurement of arrival rates and service times of delivery trucks, couriers and service vehicles at office buildings in Calgary, and a survey of existing freight facilities in central business district office buildings, formed the basis for the development of a proposal to revise existing zoning by-laws regarding freight facilities. The primary deficiency of these by-laws is that they overstate the need for delivery vehicle facilities larger office buildings and neglect the space requirements for couriers and service vehicles. The paper includes a comparison of freight facility by-laws for office buildings in a number of Canadian cities.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Proceedings of the Institute of Transportation Engineers Sixth Annual Meeting: Inter-City Transportation and the Urban Scene, held April 22-24, 1981 in Victoria, British Columbia.
• Corporate Authors:

  Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE)

  Washington, DC  United States 
• Authors:
  • Ho, H H
  • Morrall, J F
• Publication Date: 1981

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 282-308
• Serial:
  • Publication of: Secretariaat Verkeerskundige Werkdagen
  • Publisher: Secretariaat Verkeerskundige Werkdagen

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Central business districts; Delivery service; Environmental impacts; Service time; Socioeconomic factors; Structural design; Urban goods movement; Zoning
• Subject Areas: Economics; Environment; Freight Transportation; Operations and Traffic Management; Public Transportation; Society; I70: Traffic and Transport;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00345402
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: Conf Paper
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Mar 30 1982 12:00AM