Truck Trip Generation by Grocery Stores

Information about truck movements on our transportation system is important for understanding and supporting freight mobility. Unfortunately, there is relatively little information available on how different land uses generate truck trips. Such information is necessary as input into travel forecasting models as well as needed to plan for a range of freight-oriented infrastructure construction projects. The project would use Geographic Information Systems (GIS) tools to explore innovative means of linking a diverse set of transportation, land use, economic, and business location databases to develop a non survey-based truck trip generation tool. Truck transportation is a derived demand so each truck trip is filling an economic need by linking a resource extraction site, a crop, a manufacturer, a supplier, or an intermodal terminal with a consignee. By using GIS tools, this relationship between a land use that generates trucks trips and truck volumes on roadways could be explored. Such tools that estimate and forecast the relationship between land use and trip generation exist in the passenger planning world but have not been widely applied to freight. The Puget Sound region, as well as Washington State as a whole, has a number of diverse databases that potentially could be used. This includes commercial and residential land use at a parcel level, employment data, restaurant locations from health department records, agricultural and forest products land use, on-line telephone directories, and truck licensing information from the Department of Licensing. This information could be used in conjunction with roadway-based truck volume data available from a variety of agencies to derive trip generation information. This proposed project would borrow from trip generation methodologies used in the passenger planning world.

• Record URL:
  https://ntlrepository.blob.core.windows.net/lib/33000/33900/33993/TNW2010-04.pdf
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• Supplemental Notes:
  • This research was sponsored by the U.S. Department of Transportation, University Transportation Centers Program.
• Corporate Authors:

  TransNow, Transportation Northwest

  University of Washington, Department of Civil Engineering
  129 More Hall, Box 352700
  Seattle, WA  United States  98195-2700

  Washington State Department of Transportation

  Transportation Building, 310 Maple Park Avenue SE, P.O. Box 47300
  Olympia, WA  United States  98504-7300

  Research and Innovative Technology Administration

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  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • McCormack, Edward
  • Ta, Chilan
  • Bassok, Alon
  • Fishkin, Emily
• Publication Date: 2010-7

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Edition: Final Research Report
• Features: Appendices; Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 45p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Forecasting; Freight transportation; Geographic information systems; Land use; Logistics; Trip generation; Trucking
• Uncontrolled Terms: Freight mobility; Grocery stores; Truck trips
• Geographic Terms: Puget Sound Region; Washington (State)
• Subject Areas: Freight Transportation; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01206822
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: TNW2010-04
• Contract Numbers: DTRT07-G-0010 (Grant)
• Files: UTC, NTL, TRIS, USDOT, STATEDOT
• Created Date: Oct 8 2010 10:35AM