Monitoring trucks to reveal Belgian geographical structures and dynamics: From GPS traces to spatial interactions

Arnaud Adam, Olivier Finance and Isabelle Thomas

Journal of Transport Geography, 2021, vol. 91, issue C

Abstract: Despite the fact that freight transport has a huge impact on the economy and the environment, Belgian datasets have always been scarce or restricted to very small a-spatial samples. Spatial data collected in Belgium for toll-paying trucks are here examined, and geographical structures and dynamics are extracted from this massive dataset. The originality of this dataset is its exhaustivity and its real-time approach: the location of all the trucks circulating in Belgium is collected every 30 s.

Keywords: Spatial traces; Big data; Geography; Freight; Interaction; Belgium (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2021.102977

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