The paper provides a review of freight transport demand models for applications in urban
and metropolitan areas. The perspective adopted is the short-term one of public decision …

There are many challenges associated with moving goods within cities as urban areas
become larger and elderly residents require more healthcare in their homes. Air quality is …

In this paper we review freight forecasting models and current advances and needs with
respect to data and model development. We then present a case study to suggest which …

The research germinates from the statement that the cities have to solve the impacts due to
freight transport in order to improve their sustainability implementing sets of city logistics …

This paper presents a set of freight generation (FG) models for seven cities in Kerala, India.
Models were formulated by considering business size variables that capture establishment …

Only few urban freight initiatives are expanding their scale of application beyond the initial
pilot experimentation. To overcome existing barriers to larger scale optimization of urban …

Accessibility is a fundamental concept in theories of metropolitan spatial structure. Urban
economic models explain urban structure as a function of access to jobs; accessibility is …

A hybrid microsimulation modeling framework is proposed to construct goods-related
vehicle tours that satisfy a known commodity flow origin–destination (OD) matrix in an urban …

This paper investigates the application of linear regression models and modeling
techniques in predicting freight generation at the national level within the US Specifically …

In the wake of escalating urban vehicle proliferation, major cities grapple with intensified
traffic congestion, elevated air pollution, and acute scarcity of parking spaces. Addressing …