Stakeholder-specific data acquisition and urban freight policy evaluation: evidence, implications and new suggestions

V Gatta, E Marcucci - Transport Reviews, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Cities, characterised by scarce resources and facing increasing citizens' requests for more
liveable and attractive environments, need to define and implement more efficient urban …

Classifying the purpose of stopped truck events: An application of entropy to GPS data

K Gingerich, H Maoh, W Anderson - Transportation Research Part C …, 2016 - Elsevier
This paper applies the concept of entropy to mine large volumes of global positioning
system (GPS) data in order to determine the purpose of stopped truck events. Typical GPS …

Spatial microsimulation and agent-based modelling

D Ballas, T Broomhead, PM Jones - … practice of spatial analysis: Essays in …, 2019 - Springer
This chapter critically reviews the state-of-the-art in spatial microsimulation and agent-based
modelling approaches with an emphasis on efforts to combine them in order to address …

Descriptive modeling of freight tour formation: A shipment-based approach

S Thoen, L Tavasszy, M de Bok, G Correia… - … Research Part E …, 2020 - Elsevier
An increasing amount of research is dedicated to the consideration of tour formation in
freight transportation demand models. While empirical tour formation models so far have …

[HTML][HTML] A spatial microsimulation approach for the analysis of commuter patterns: from individual to regional levels

R Lovelace, D Ballas, M Watson - Journal of Transport Geography, 2014 - Elsevier
The daily trip to work is ubiquitous, yet its characteristics differ widely from person to person
and place to place. This is manifested in statistics on mode and distance of travel, which vary …

Inverse vehicle routing for activity-based urban freight forecast modeling and city logistics

SI You, JYJ Chow, SG Ritchie - Transportmetrica A: Transport …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Goods movement is one of the fastest growing transportation sectors, affecting both
economic and environmental sustainability, particularly in dense urban areas with traffic …

Applications of passive GPS data to characterize the movement of freight trucks—a case study in the Calgary region of Canada

A Kinjarapu, MG Demissie, L Kattan… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The movement of trucks represents a significant portion of travel. Surveys have traditionally
been used to measure truck movement, but this costly and limited data collection method …

Aggregate urban truck tour synthesis from public data

H Davis III, H Landes, F Namdarpour, H Yang… - … Research Part A: Policy …, 2024 - Elsevier
Increasing complexity of urban freight policies demand agent-based simulation models that
can address time-of-day dynamics. However, existing state of the art tools like SimMobility …

Forecasting greenhouse gas emissions from urban regions: microsimulation of land use and transport patterns in Austin, Texas

S Tirumalachetty, KM Kockelman, BG Nichols - Journal of Transport …, 2013 - Elsevier
Policymakers, planners, engineers, and others seek effective ways to anticipate and
manage greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions for a sustainable future. Here, a microsimulation …

Representation of work-related trip patterns in household and commercial travel surveys

A Reiffer, L Barthelmes… - Transportation …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
This paper considers which work-related trip patterns are included in household travel
surveys and which in commercial travel surveys and if there are certain patterns that are …