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

Journal article (2020)

Authors

Sebastiaan Thoen Significance
Lorant Tavasszy Transport and Logistics - TPM , Transport and Planning - CEG
M.A. de Bok Significance, Transport and Planning - CEG
Ron van Duin Transport and Logistics - TPM , Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences
Research Group
Transport and Planning (CEG) (TU Delft)
Copyright: © 2020 Sebastiaan Thoen, Lorant Tavasszy, M.A. de Bok, Ron van Duin
DOI
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tre.2020.101989
Discrete choice model Freight transportation modeling Road transport survey Tour formation
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Published Date

2020

Language

English

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Faculty

Civil Engineering & Geosciences

Department

Transport and Planning

Research Group

Transport and Planning

Abstract

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 been starting from limiting assumptions about the resulting trips, we develop a generalized shipment-based model. We formulate a random utility model embedded in an iterative algorithm to construct tours through the incremental allocation of shipments. It considers different objectives and constraints and acknowledges the difference between commodity, vehicle and location types. Parameters are estimated on a large and comprehensive shipment database. The model reproduces observed tour statistics well for the given set of shipments.