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.

• Record URL:
  http://www.metrans.org/research/freight-landscape-using-secondary-data-sources-describe-metropolitan-freight-flows

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Completed
• Funding: $100,000
• Contract Numbers:

  DTRT13-G-UTC57

• Sponsor Organizations:

  Research and Innovative Technology Administration

  University Transportation Centers Program
  1200 New Jersey Avenue
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Project Managers:

  Valentine Deguzman, Victoria

• 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