Recurring Patterns of Commercial Vehicles Movements in Urban Areas: The Parma Case Study

Urban freight transport is capable of generating “temporal-related utility” in the urban economy by providing the goods required by the end-consumers at the right time in the right place. This paper focuses on the time sensitivity of one-to-many distribution processes in urban environment. An in-depth 8-month survey of commercial vehicle tours leaving from an urban distribution center, located in the outskirt of the city of Parma (Italy), has been performed, merging information between a GPS-based dataset and a wider operations dataset. Through continuous approximation models, the relative impact of time-dependent parameters of the delivery process, particularly drivers’ working time and favorite time slots for deliveries, has been analyzed along with the effects due to traffic congestion.

• Record URL:
  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sbspro.2013.10.612
• Record URL:
  http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877042813040573
• Availability:
  • Find a library where document is available. Order URL: http://worldcat.org/issn/18770428
• Supplemental Notes:
  • © 2013 Michele Tozzi et al.
• Authors:
  • Tozzi, Michele
  • Corazza, Maria Vittoria
  • Musso, Antonio
• Conference:
  • 19th Annual Meeting of the Italian Society of Transportation Academics (SIDT 2012 Scientific Seminar)
  • Location: Padova , Italy
  • Date: 2012-10-18 to 2012-10-19
• Publication Date: 2013-10-10

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; Maps; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 306-320
• Serial:
  • Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences
  • Volume: 87
  • Issue Number: 0
  • Publisher: Elsevier
  • ISSN: 1877-0428
  • Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/18770428/53
• Publication flags:

  Open Access (libre)

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Commercial vehicles; Delivery service; Freight traffic; Global Positioning System; Time dependence; Urban areas; Urban transportation
• Uncontrolled Terms: Distribution centers
• Geographic Terms: Parma (Italy)
• Subject Areas: Freight Transportation; Planning and Forecasting; I70: Traffic and Transport;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01497469
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Oct 18 2013 5:15PM