Models for Joining Consumer Trips and Goods Movements at Urban Scale

This paper presents a modeling system developed to join consumer trips and goods movements at an urban and metropolitan scale. Given that in many cases urban transportation modeling treats passenger and freight transportation separately, this paper proposes a modeling system to simulate goods movements at an urban scale which combines urban personal travel and commodity flows (commodity flows are generated in order to support a given need) considering the interaction between consumers and other decision-makers involved (e.g. producers, carriers, retailers, etc.). The paper presents the results obtained in some Italian cities, where the first prototypical models were specified, calibrated and validated.

• Corporate Authors:

  Transportation Research Board

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• Authors:
  • Comi, Antonio
  • Russo, Francesco
• Conference:
  • Transportation Research Board 88th Annual Meeting
  • Location: Washington DC, United States
  • Date: 2009-1-11 to 2009-1-15
• Date: 2009

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: DVD
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 17p
• Monograph Title: TRB 88th Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers DVD

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Case studies; Consumers; Freight traffic; Trip generation; Trip purpose; Urban goods movement
• Uncontrolled Terms: Transportation modeling
• Geographic Terms: Italy
• Subject Areas: Freight Transportation; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01122063
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: 09-2009
• Files: TRIS, TRB
• Created Date: Feb 19 2009 2:42PM