Development of Sketch-Planning Tool for Sustainable and Resilient Urban Goods Movements

The urban goods distribution system is vital to supply the needs of individuals and businesses. However, during the pandemic, the impacted system was not prepared for the sudden increase in demand, especially to serve households as the retail sector was halted by the stay-at-home orders and temporary closures. The pandemic evinced the need to develop and plan for a resilient and sustainable system that can maintain and efficiently restore operations in the event of such high-severity disruptions. The research team recently developed an analytical model (R4-T-LMD) for urban goods distribution integrating the Resilience Triangle concept and the R4 Resilience framework. The R4-T-LMD considers sustainability of operations, thus rendering an economically viable, environmentally friendly, and equitable service; and a resilient one. This translational project will develop a sketch-planning tool for local jurisdictions based on the R4-T-LMD for the adequate planning of the system. The tool will identify planning and land use needs to support their sustainable and resilient urban goods distribution e.g., using urban consolidation, micro-hubs, alternative delivery points, and light zero emission vehicles, among other strategies. Moreover, the team will use recently developed projections of demand for six large MSAs to test the sketch planning tool under different disruption and demand scenarios.

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Active
• Funding: $73638
• Contract Numbers:

  9A3551747109

• Sponsor Organizations:

  Department of Transportation

  Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC    20590

  Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology

  University Transportation Centers Program
  Department of Transportation
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Managing Organizations:

  METRANS Transportation Center

  University of Southern California
  Los Angeles, CA  United States  90089-0626
• Performing Organizations:

  University of California, Davis

  Institute of Transportation Studies
  Davis, CA  United States  95616
• Principal Investigators:

  Jaller, Miguel

• Start Date: 20221001
• Expected Completion Date: 20230930
• Actual Completion Date: 0
• USDOT Program: University Transportation Centers

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Disaster resilience; Land use; Service disruption; Strategic planning; Urban goods movement
• Subject Areas: Freight Transportation; Planning and Forecasting; Security and Emergencies;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01858363
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: National Center for Metropolitan Transportation Research
• Contract Numbers: 9A3551747109
• Files: UTC, RIP
• Created Date: Sep 20 2022 3:27PM