Large urban freight traffic generators: Opportunities for city logistics initiatives
Miguel Jaller
University of California, Davis
Xiaokun (Cara) Wang
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Jose Holguin-Veras
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5198/jtlu.2015.406
Keywords:
Large Traffic Generators, Land Use, Freight Trip Generation, City Logistics
Abstract
This paper develops procedures to identify and quantify the role played by large urban freight traffic generators as contributors of truck traffic in metropolitan areas. Although ports, container terminals, and other industrial sites are usually associated with large generations of truck trips, they only represent a small proportion of the total trips produced and attracted in large metropolitan areas. This paper analyzes the importance of other facilities such as ordinary businesses or buildings that individually or collectively (clusters) generate a large proportion of truck traffic. The paper discusses the opportunities of these large traffic generators for city logistics initiatives. In addition, the paper introduces two effective and complementary procedures to identify these generators using freight trip generation models estimated by the authors.
Author Biography
Miguel Jaller, University of California, Davis
Assistant Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering