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34 C H A P T E R 7 7.1 Introduction This section reviews the status and application of urban freight-forecasting models to account for the impacts of smart growth. This review is limited to urban models that forecast trucks because the majority of urban goods movements are by truck, and because existing urban-level freight-forecasting tools in use do not have the capabilities to address freight movement by other modes.
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Urban Truck Freight Models 35 activities. However, one major challenge is that these models are very diverse, using a wide range of data sources and with different independent variables.
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36 Smart Growth and Urban Goods Movement 2007; EPA 2010)
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Urban Truck Freight Models 37 The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) supported a 2010 effort to "accurately predict the impacts of mixed-use studies" and suggests .
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38 Smart Growth and Urban Goods Movement 3. Land-Use Mix Consolidated freight facilities.
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Urban Truck Freight Models 39 The tours simulated by this model are derived from travel-diary surveys conducted at 3,000 businesses. The numbers of trips in tours are decided by an aggregate trip-generation module, and then each trip is completed using a random (Monte Carlo)
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