Commercial Vehicle Travel Patterns in Urban Areas: Findings and Implications from the Denver Metropolitan Area
This paper is motivated by a need to examine the characteristics of commercial vehicle movements in an urban area. 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 good predictors for trip travel time while the tour airline distance and the number of stops along a tour can be used to determine tour travel time.
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Corporate Authors:
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Authors:
- Hu, Jinge
- Wang, Qian
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Conference:
- 11th International Conference of Chinese Transportation Professionals (ICCTP)
- Location: Nanjing , China
- Date: 2011-8-14 to 2011-8-17
- Publication Date: 2011
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: Digital/other
- Features: References;
- Pagination: pp 4361-4371
- Monograph Title: ICCTP 2011: Towards Sustainable Transportation Systems
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Commercial vehicles; Freight transportation; Regression analysis; Travel diaries; Travel patterns; Travel time; Trip length; Urban areas
- Geographic Terms: Colorado
- Subject Areas: Freight Transportation; Planning and Forecasting; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01453829
- Record Type: Publication
- ISBN: 9780784411865
- Files: TRIS, ASCE
- Created Date: Nov 15 2012 12:32PM