FRETURB V3, A Policy Oriented Software of Modelling Urban Goods Movement

Abstract

This paper presents a land use and tour-based for urban goods movement simulation. Three modules interact each other: a delivery-pick-up model including transport of goods between all the economic activities in the city; a management module, (transport of goods and raw material for public and building works, urban networks maintenance and removals); and a trips which concerns trips of consumers during their purchasing activities. This communication focus on the delivery-pick-ups model. Thanks to the results of thorough establishment surveys coupled with driver surveys, this estimates, on a town zoning, the goods movements (road occupancy, just as by vehicle flows as by on-road parking vehicles) according to the logistic strategy of the shippers and of the haulers, the environment and the characteristics of the establishments and the urban land use. It is divided into four parts: methodology, description of the different components of the model, description of the functionality of the software and discussion of some results.