Empirical analysis of commercial vehicle dwell times around freight-attracting urban buildings in downtown Seattle

Haena Kim, Anne Goodchild and Linda Ng Boyle

Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 2021, vol. 147, issue C, 320-338

Abstract: Dwell time is defined as the time that delivery workers spend performing out-of-vehicle activities while their vehicle is parked. Restricting vehicle dwell time is widely used to manage commercial vehicle parking behavior. However, there is insufficient data to help assess the effectiveness of these restrictions. This makes it difficult for policymakers to account for the complexity of commercial vehicle parking behavior. The current study aims to identify factors correlated with dwell time for commercial vehicles. This is accomplished by using generalized linear models with data collected from five buildings that are known to include commercial vehicle activities in the downtown area of Seattle, Washington, USA. Our models showed that dwell times for buildings with concierge services tended to be shorter. Deliveries of documents also tended to have shorter dwell times than oversized supplies deliveries. Passenger vehicle deliveries had shorter dwell times than deliveries made with vehicles with roll-up doors or swing doors (e.g., vans and trucks). When there were deliveries made to multiple locations within a building, the dwell times were significantly longer than dwell times made to one location in a building. The findings from the presented models demonstrate the potential for improving future parking policies for commercial vehicles by considering data collected from different building types, delivered goods, and vehicle types.

Keywords: Urban freight; Delivery; Logistics; Parking; Commercial vehicle (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1016/j.tra.2021.02.019

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