Commercial Vehicle Travel Patterns in Urban Areas: Findings and Implications from Denver Metropolitan Area
This paper is motivated by an urgent need to examine the characteristics of commercial vehicle movements in urban areas. It studied the aggregate travel patterns of commercial vehicle movements in urban areas, i.e., the trip length distributions, the tour length distributions and the affecting factors of them, using a travel diary data collected by the Denver Regional Council of Governments (DRCOG) for the Denver Metropolitan area, Colorado, USA. The detailed statistical analyses reveal that the mean trip travel time and mean tour travel time of commercial vehicles vary by vehicle body type, fleet size and type of the company where the vehicles belong to. Meanwhile, the regression modeling results indicate that the trip airline distance and the vehicle body types are the good predictors for trip time while the tour airline distance and the number of stops along a tour can be used to determine tour time. The results of these analyses can be used for the purposes of travel demand forecast model development and policy making.
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Authors:
- Hu, Jinge
- Wang, Qian
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Conference:
- Transportation Research Board 90th Annual Meeting
- Location: Washington DC, United States
- Date: 2011-1-23 to 2011-1-27
- Date: 2011
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: DVD
- Features: Figures; References; Tables;
- Pagination: 13p
- Monograph Title: TRB 90th Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers DVD
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Commercial vehicles; Data collection; Freight traffic; Freight transportation; Policy making; Statistical analysis; Travel demand; Travel diaries; Travel patterns; Travel time; Urban areas
- Geographic Terms: Denver (Colorado)
- Subject Areas: Freight Transportation; Planning and Forecasting; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01338046
- Record Type: Publication
- Report/Paper Numbers: 11-1965
- Files: TRIS, TRB
- Created Date: Apr 28 2011 7:01AM