Path Generation Modelling: Experimentation on Italian Road Freight Transport

This paper on the use of path generation modeling in Italian road freight transport is from the proceedings of 14th international Conference on Urban Transport and the Environment in the 21st Century, which was held in Malta in 2008. The author reports that the considerable recent growth in European freight transport has occurred primarily by road, thus increasing the importance of understanding and modeling the path choice behavior of truck drivers. The author considers two conceptual step used for explicit path choice modeling: generation of the choice set, or the possible alternatives; and choice among those alternatives. Starting from the consideration that only a subset of all the possible paths (choice set) are actually perceived by truck-drivers, the author proposes a specification, calibration and validation of a path generation model. The path generation model was calibrated and validated on the Italian road network and also using a truck driver (roadside and commercial vehicle on-board) survey. The results of the experiment using the Italian network show that few routes are actually perceived as feasible alternatives; up to 80% of coverage of chosen paths could be obtained by generating paths with respect for the criteria identified; and topological, level of service, and socioeconomic attributes influence users' perception.

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• Authors:
  • Quattrone, A
• Conference:
  • Urban Transport XIV: Urban Transport and the Environment in the 21st Century
  • Date: 2008-9-1 to 2008-9-3
• Publication Date: 2008

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Figures; Maps; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 639-648
• Monograph Title: Urban Transport XIV. Urban Transport and the Environment in the 21st Century

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Behavior; Economic models; Freight transportation; Level of service; Route choice; Socioeconomic factors; Topology; Travel demand; Truck drivers; Trucks
• Geographic Terms: Europe; Italy
• Subject Areas: Economics; Freight Transportation; Planning and Forecasting;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01115619
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 9781845641238
• Files: TRIS, ATRI
• Created Date: Nov 29 2008 8:06AM