Conceptualizing freight generation for transport and land use planning: A review and synthesis of the literature

Sam McLeod, Jake H.M. Schapper, Carey Curtis and Giles Graham

Transport Policy, 2019, vol. 74, issue C, 24-34

Abstract: Freight generation and movement patterns are not well understood by planners and policy-makers tasked with making complex strategic land use and transport planning decisions. In the absence of detailed planning evidence, they may rely on scant or anecdotal data, extrapolated and presented through complex quantitative models. Unfortunately, predictive model outputs can fail to accurately match observed outcomes, and such models cannot predict complex long-term phenomena which may transformatively disrupt freight production and movement patterns.

Keywords: Freight transport; Freight generation; Freight models; Freight policy; Land use planning; Diamond model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1016/j.tranpol.2018.11.007

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