Surveys on Urban Freight Transport: Synthesis of a Workshop

This chapter describes how workshop participants were given the task of defining the state of the art in urban freight surveys. The participants were to identify key issues and challenges and provide advice for continued research. This topic is of growing interest for urban and regional policymakers, as evidenced by the increasing number of surveys being undertaken worldwide. This trend is likely to continue, given the pressures for improved air quality in urban areas, the pressures to regulate and reduce the emissions of greenhouse gases and the pressures imposed on logistics chains by increasing fuel prices.

• Corporate Authors:

  Emerald Group Publishing Limited

  Howard House, Wagon Lane
  Bingley,   United Kingdom  BD14 1WA
• Authors:
  • Roorda, Matthew J
  • Meyburg, A H
  • Browne, Michael
• Publication Date: 2009

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Edition: First
• Features: References;
• Pagination: pp 289-294
• Monograph Title: Transport Survey Methods: Keeping Up with a Changing World

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Air quality; Environmental impacts; Exhaust gases; Freight traffic; Freight transportation; Greenhouse gases; Pollutants; Surveys; Urban areas; Urban goods movement
• Subject Areas: Environment; Freight Transportation; Planning and Forecasting; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01163267
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jul 22 2010 7:11AM