1 Urban Logistics: E-Commerce & Sustainability Symposium, Nov 28, 2014 Urban freight – Data collection and modeling Lynette Cheah Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) Fang Zhao Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology, Future of Urban Mobility (SMART FM)
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1Urban Logistics: E-Commerce & Sustainability Symposium, Nov 28, 2014
Urban freight –
Data collection and modeling
Lynette CheahSingapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD)
Fang ZhaoSingapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology,
Future of Urban Mobility (SMART FM)
2Urban Logistics: E-Commerce & Sustainability Symposium, Nov 28, 2014
Challenges in urban freight
• A complex socio-technical problem,
impacting:
• urban and transport system planning
• efficiency, cost of supply chains
• environment and safety
• Freight accounts for 35% of world transport energy use
• Quarter of transport-related CO2 in European cities
• Road freight expected to grow 60+% between 2000-2050
Source: DaBlanc 2010
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Complexity of urban freight
• Different for every city
• Fragmented industry: 90% of trucks in Asia owned by individuals
• Diversity of commodity flow and transport implications
• chemicals: pick-drop-drop-drop
• materials, e.g. cement: hub & spoke
• fast moving consumer goods (fmcg), food: fixed schedule,
subject to delivery time constraints
• heavy equipment: dynamic based on job portfolio
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Hurdles to understanding urban freight
• Lack of knowledge and data on freight flows in cities
• In Singapore, no counterpart of Household Interview Travel Survey
• A few uncoordinated studies, limited geographical and commodity
coverage
• Absence of freight models for policy and governance
Systematic data collection is the initial step
– measure what we want to manage
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