UNDERSTANDING THE GROWTH IN SERVICE TRIPS AND DEVELOPING TRANSPORT MODELING APPROACHES TO COMMERCIAL, SERVICE AND LIGHT GOODS MOVEMENTS

This paper describes how freight modeling and analysis has risen in importance. However, although the concentration to date specifically on freight vehicles and lorries has begun to cover the bulk of commodity tonnage flows, it has not properly addressed the mix of commercial service and light goods movements that make up the bulk of the vehicle movements involved. The importance of these mixed light vehicle flows has been well established in freight policy considerations, but the nature of the activities serviced by these movements has progressively changed. Lorry sizes have also substantially increased, therefore the shipment of bulk tonnage involves fewer road vehicle movements. In recent years, there has been some speculation that the increases in the importance of the service sector and the growth of out-sourcing has led to increased light goods vehicles (LGV) and light commercial vehicles (LCV) traffic in urban areas. The paper addresses on-going research into the importance of the service sector in trip patterns and the associated, but not identical, traffic generation of LGVs and LCVs. Despite the growing importance of this element or urban traffic the scale of activity, the problems caused and experienced and the nature of the operations are not well understood by researchers and policy makers.

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• Authors:
  • Wigan, M
  • Browne, M
• Conference:
  • European Transport Conference 2002
  • Location: Homerton College, Cambridge, England
  • Date: 2002-9-9 to 2002-9-11
• Publication Date: 2002

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: 15 p.
• Monograph Title: ADAPTIVE TRAFFIC CONTROLLED ROUNDABOUTS. ASSOCIATION OF EUROPEAN TRANSPORT 2002 CONFERENCE
• Serial:
  • Publication of: Association for European Transport
  • Publisher: Association for European Transport (AET)
  • ISSN: 1474-9122

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Commercial vehicle operations; Commercial vehicles; Freight and passenger handling; Freight and passenger services; Freight and passenger traffic; Policy making; Trip distribution; Trip purpose; Urban goods movement
• Geographic Terms: Australia; United Kingdom
• Subject Areas: Freight Transportation; Operations and Traffic Management; Passenger Transportation; Planning and Forecasting; Policy; Railroads; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00932516
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 0860503402
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Oct 28 2003 12:00AM