A model for national freight flows, distribution centers, empty trucks and urban truck movements

Rolf Moeckel and Rick Donnelly

Transportation Planning and Technology, 2016, vol. 39, issue 7, 693-711

Abstract: Trucks travel both short distances for local deliveries and long distances for transporting goods across the country. Often their travel behavior is tour-based, they run under tight schedules and under curfew on selected roads. Despite these differences from personal travel, in practice truck models largely follow person travel methods. To overcome this shortcoming, a two-layer truck model is developed for the Chicago Metropolitan Area. Long-distance trucks are driven by commodity flows, with distribution centers, rail yards, marine ports and airports being represented explicitly. Empty trucks are accounted for as well. For the short-distance truck model, a novel parameter estimation method makes use of limited data to derive region-specific parameters. The model is fully operational and validates reasonably well against traffic counts.

Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1080/03081060.2016.1204091

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