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Most urban planners and decision makers do not have sufficient knowledge and understanding of freight issues to take urban goods movement into consideration. Although certain measures such as freight villages have the potential to address some of the freight and land use problems at both local and national levels, they often face serious challenges in the implementation stage due to the lack of availability of suitable land. The overarching goal of this paper is to report on the perceptions and knowledge of the stakeholders involved in urban freight movement and commercial real estate development regarding the relationship between land use and freight. In this paper, an overview of the theoretical aspects of land use - freight interaction is provided. This discussion will focus mostly on the freight movements that take place in urban areas, namely, the shipments to regional distribution centers (regional DCs) and final customers. The research approach employed to collect pertinent information from the stakeholders involved in freight movement and to analyze the collected data is presented. The paper will conclude by presenting findings from the analysis of the data.

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee AT000 Freight Systems

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12-4338

English

20p

2012

Transportation Research Board 91st Annual Meeting

Digital/other

Figures; References; Tables

Built environment; Distribution support businesses; Land use; Real estate development; Urban goods movement

Freight Transportation; Operations and Traffic Management; I70: Traffic and Transport

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2012 Paper #12-4338

TRIS, TRB

Feb 8 2012 5:23PM