A Behavioral Modeling in Micro-Simulation For Urban Freight Transportation
Freight Transportation is a major factor contributing to economic growth and development. However, freight transportation issues should be considered carefully in both modeling and policy making because they involve with a significant amount of energy consumption and pollution. As a result, a proper freight transportation-modeling tool is needed for transportation planners in order to assess to the effect of policy decision on freight transportation system. The current direction of demand modeling is to model at the micro level for both freight demand modeling and passenger demand modeling.
It is widely accepted that demand modeling at the micro level results in a more realistic and policy-sensitive model. In passenger demand models, the activity-based approach is now receiving more attention than in the past. The activity-based approach describes an individual’s daily activities more realistically. It is possible to views freight transportation at the behavioral level as well as in passenger transportation. Freight transportation characteristics in particular are more complex than those of passenger transportation.
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