The Freight Landscape: Using Secondary Data Sources to Describe Metropolitan Freight Flows
Using comprehensive data on population, establishments, and transportation, this project will analyze relationships between spatial structure and freight activity. The main hypothesis is that the spatial distribution of freight activity is related to the spatial organization of economic activities. Freight activity may be measured as truck or commodity trip generation and flows. The project will estimate models of freight activity as a function of local and regional spatial characteristics. Case studies of Los Angeles, San Francisco, and San Diego will be conducted. The research will begin with the Los Angeles metropolitan area, for which most of the data has been collected. Results of the research will contribute to developing a city logistics typology, and to the development of methods to predict freight flow characteristics based on spatial data.
Language
- English
Project
- Status: Completed
- Funding: $100,000
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Contract Numbers:
DTRT13-G-UTC57
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Sponsor Organizations:
Research and Innovative Technology Administration
University Transportation Centers Program
1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
Washington, DC United States 20590 -
Project Managers:
Valentine Deguzman, Victoria
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Performing Organizations:
National Center for Metropolitan Transportation Research
University of Southern California
650 Childs Way, RGL 107
Los Angeles, CA United States 90089-0626 -
Principal Investigators:
Giuliano, Genevieve
- Start Date: 20140101
- Expected Completion Date: 20150930
- Actual Completion Date: 20150930
- Source Data: RiP Project 37136
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Case studies; Data collection; Freight traffic; Freight transportation; Logistics; Metropolitan areas; Traffic flow; Trip generation
- Geographic Terms: Los Angeles (California); San Diego (California); San Francisco (California)
- Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Economics; Freight Transportation; Highways; Planning and Forecasting;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01565269
- Record Type: Research project
- Source Agency: National Center for Metropolitan Transportation Research
- Contract Numbers: DTRT13-G-UTC57
- Files: UTC, RIP
- Created Date: May 29 2015 1:01AM