Abstract:
In comparison to intercity freight transport or urban personal travel, very little is known about urban commercial vehicle movements. Urban commercial vehicle movements, which comprise about 10% of total trips made in the cities studied, exert a proportionally higher influence in terms of Paper 376 2 congestion, emissions and pavement wear due to the size and performance of the vehicles in the urban commercial fleet. However, the understanding gained from studies of intercity commercial movement does not apply in the urban context; intercity movements are almost entirely goods movements made by large commercial vehicles. In contrast, in an urban context, there are more movements for services than there are for goods, and more by light commercial vehicles (passenger cars, vans and pick-up trucks) than by heavier vehicles. This paper presents an aggregate analysis of urban commercial vehicle movements in the cities of Calgary and Edmonton, the two principal cities in the Province of Alberta in Canada. This analysis includes comparisons between the cities, as well as comparisons with the personal vehicle travel within the cities. Some of the major dimensions studied include the makeup of the commercial vehicle fleet, the time patterns of commercial traffic, travel purposes, origin-destination patterns, analysis of shipping establishment industry and type of commodity carried.
Website: http://www.calgary.ca/Transpor…Source: International Conference on Computers in Urban Planning and Urban Management (9)
Resource Types: Academic paper
Target Education Levels: Bachelors Degree, Graduates, researchers