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Freight Data Assembling and Modeling: Methodologies and Practice

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  • Qisheng Pan

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In comparison to personal travel, freight movements within large metropolitan areas are much less studied. Most conventional transportation models and planning analysis that disregarded freight flows have been criticized on the plausibility of their results and conclusions. To alleviate these problems, this study proposes a non-survey based approach to assemble and process freight data in a systematic way. A freight origin--destination (OD) matrix of freight flows can be developed using secondary data sources. The estimated freight flows can be loaded together with conventional passenger flows onto the regional highway network of a large metropolitan area. As a case study, this non-survey based approach was applied to build a freight OD and study the traffic flows in Los Angeles. It concluded that this approach can be used to analyze urban freight movement in a low-cost way in which planning agencies can overcome the common omission of freight flow information in their transportation plans.

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  • Qisheng Pan, 2005. "Freight Data Assembling and Modeling: Methodologies and Practice," Transportation Planning and Technology, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 29(1), pages 43-74, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:transp:v:29:y:2005:i:1:p:43-74
    DOI: 10.1080/03081060600585327
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