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A zone design methodology for national freight origin-destination data and transportation modeling

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  • Feng Guo
  • Lisa Aultman-Hall

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The zone system used for freight data collection and the geographic resolution of published data has a significant impact on analysis and planning. The majority of existing freight model zones are created in an ad hoc way. In this paper, a new model-based design method is introduced to develop freight zones for the continental USA. It focuses on two methodology issues: (1) the criteria that represent the desired properties of a zone system and (2) the constraints that govern the shape, size, and continuity of zones. The method is applied to the continental USA by optimizing an interzonal travel distance weighted by freight flows using county-level freight data. Several optimal national-level freight zone systems with different numbers of zones are developed. The results indicate that a 300-zone system provides a balance between the number of zones and optimization measures where the currently available public freight data are provided with approximately 100 zones.

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  • Feng Guo & Lisa Aultman-Hall, 2014. "A zone design methodology for national freight origin-destination data and transportation modeling," Transportation Planning and Technology, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 37(8), pages 738-756, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:transp:v:37:y:2014:i:8:p:738-756
    DOI: 10.1080/03081060.2014.959355
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