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Title:

Modeling Urban Commercial Vehicle Daily Tour Choice Using the Texas Commercial Vehicle Survey Data

Accession Number:

01158428

Record Type:

Component

Availability:

Transportation Research Board Business Office

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Abstract:

Freight transport (mainly commercial vehicles) plays an important role in urban transportation system and contributes to traffic congestion, pollution, infrastructure damage, etc. The complex nature of urban commercial vehicle movements has made modeling their activities a challenge. Recent studies have suggested that activity-based models are capable of aiding in understanding actors’ (i.e., shippers, carriers and receivers) behavior on delivering goods or service. This paper attempts to gain insights into urban commercial vehicle daily tour scheduling by using a joint discrete choice model, which associates commercial vehicle activities in urban areas with land use, shipment demand, and shipment type, etc. Each tour is defined as the entire trip chain of the commercial vehicle in a given day. Schedule choices for each tour are classified into eight classes defined by three dimensions: vehicle type, departure time, and trip chaining pattern/topology. The data used in the model development are from the Texas Commercial Vehicle Surveys in San Antonio, Amarillo Valley, Lubbock and Austin during 2005 and 2006, which accounted for a total of 13,802 trips made by 1,711 commercial vehicles. Model results show that daily commercial vehicle tour scheduling decisions are highly influenced by cargo type, land use and the regional demographic characteristics. The study sheds light in urban commercial vehicle activities as well as factors that influence them. The study findings should prove to be useful to planners and policy makers in assisting them to identify strategies to facilitate smooth urban commercial vehicle movements.

Monograph Accession #:

01147878

Report/Paper Numbers:

10-3644

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Ruan, Minyan
Lin, Jie
Kawamura, Kazuya

Pagination:

15 p

Publication Date:

2010

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 89th Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2010-1-10 to 2010-1-14
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

DVD

Features:

Figures (2) ; References; Tables (3)

Subject Areas:

Freight Transportation; Motor Carriers

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2010 Paper #10-3644

Files:

TRIS, TRB

Created Date:

Jan 25 2010 11:51AM