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Title:

Data Organization Pattern for Microscopic Freight Demand Models

Accession Number:

01023278

Record Type:

Component

Availability:

Transportation Research Board Business Office

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Abstract:

In response to the changes in the freight transportation systems today, there is a demanding need for generations of new freight transport models that overcome the distinction of modeling either the demand-side or the supply-side of the transport market. The understanding of the behavior of the individual actors is a primary condition for the successful construction of those novel models. This paper provides a framework for the organization of data patterns of freight transport models that allows investigating the overall dynamic of the freight market. From a microscopic perspective, the demand side of the transport market is expressed by microscopic economic flows. On the supply side, homogeneous market segments can be explicitly distinguished. Such a scheme has been empirically developed for the German freight market. Data from different statistics such as manufacturing, domestic trade and data from the monetary Input/Output Table have been integrated. Data from national vehicle survey and concepts from classical marketing such as fuzzy cluster analysis have been employed to establish the market segmentation task. The compilation shows that the inter-sectoral commodity flows and the overall quantity in the transport markets fit together, which allows the construction of a microscopic freight model disaggregated according to sectoral commodity exchange processes and transport markets. A similar data organization scheme has been developed for the Canadian freight market based on data from the Commercial Vehicle Survey. It allows to make a generalization how a freight demand model based on transport markets can be applied to other geographical regions as well.

Monograph Accession #:

01020180

Report/Paper Numbers:

06-2410

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Ott, Anselm Y
Liedtke, Gernot Thorsten
Babani, Jola

Pagination:

20p

Publication Date:

2006

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 85th Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2006-1-22 to 2006-1-26
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

CD-ROM

Features:

Figures (3) ; References (14) ; Tables (3)

Geographic Terms:

Germany

Subject Areas:

Economics; Freight Transportation; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; I21: Planning of Transport Infrastructure

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2006 Paper #06-2410

Files:

BTRIS, TRIS, TRB

Created Date:

Mar 3 2006 10:59AM