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Title:

Vehicular Effects of Home Shopping--An Eight Year Regional Study

Accession Number:

01155539

Record Type:

Component

Availability:

Transportation Research Board Business Office

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Abstract:

As a shopping behavior trend, home shopping has become more popular. This shopping method seems to decrease shopping trips, yet more delivery trucks are required to be on the roads. In addition, even more personal trips may occur because saving time on shopping might allow more time for alternate activities. A study that was performed in 2001 at the University of Delaware investigated the effects of home shopping on the transportation system of downtown Newark, Delaware. The purpose of that study was to identify the home shopping impacts on transportation system, its net effects on traffic volume of the transportation network and then to provide some projections for 2005 and 2010 condition. In 2008, another study was conducted to verify the forecasts provided by the 2001 study. The evaluation process produced two remarkable results. First, none of the scenarios provided in the previous study were proved to be the dominant case for the present condition. Indeed, it was revealed that the average number of purchased goods through home shopping per person per year has increased by 14.8% from 2001 to 2008. Second, although the growth in home shopping has been significantly less than what was projected through those scenarios, the Measures of Effectiveness (MOEs) of the network for 2008 were even worse than the worst case scenario projected for 2010. In this paper, the authors present a comprehensive review of both the 2001 and the 2008 studies, report on the results of a comparative analysis, and make recommendations for future projections.

Monograph Accession #:

01147878

Report/Paper Numbers:

10-3451

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Laghaei, Jamshid
Faghri, Ardeshir

Pagination:

19p

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:

Photos (1) ; References (23) ; Tables (3)

Uncontrolled Terms:

Transportation systems

Geographic Terms:

Newark (Delaware)

Subject Areas:

Highways; Planning and Forecasting; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2010 Paper #10-3451

Files:

TRIS, TRB

Created Date:

Jan 25 2010 11:44AM