GPS Data Analysis for Understanding Urban Goods Movement

Pascal Pluvinet, Jesus Gonzalez-Feliu () and Christian Ambrosini ()
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Pascal Pluvinet: LET - Laboratoire d'économie des transports - UL2 - Université Lumière - Lyon 2 - ENTPE - École Nationale des Travaux Publics de l'État - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Jesus Gonzalez-Feliu: LET - Laboratoire d'économie des transports - UL2 - Université Lumière - Lyon 2 - ENTPE - École Nationale des Travaux Publics de l'État - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Christian Ambrosini: LET - Laboratoire d'économie des transports - UL2 - Université Lumière - Lyon 2 - ENTPE - École Nationale des Travaux Publics de l'État - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Abstract: This paper aims to investigate the contribution of GPS survey techniques for urban goods movement characterization and diagnosis, more precisely the implementation and application issues related to the introduction of real-time data transmission procedures and phone tools with integrated GPS devices. We propose a GPS-based data collection method for urban freight route characterization using a Smartphone application. After testing and calibrating the data processing tool, we analyze the main results on a baseline of about 900 rounds, with the R software. This analysis allows us to define the characteristics of the overall routes as well as the environmental impacts linked with the categories of roads: urban highways, main roads and residential streets. Moreover, the study shows that the environmental behavior of the driver is connected with the main activity of the carriers. The complementarity between GPS and traditional urban freight surveys is finally discussed.

Keywords: goods movement; Survey techniques; Deliveries; GPS (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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Published in Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2012, Part of special issue: Seventh International Conference on City Logistics which was held on June 7- 9, 2011, Mallorca, Spain, 39, pp.450-462. ⟨10.1016/j.sbspro.2012.03.121⟩

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DOI: 10.1016/j.sbspro.2012.03.121

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