Comprehensive Freight Demand Data Collection Framework for Large Urban Areas - Sustainable Urban Logistics: Concepts, Methods and Information Systems - page 101

Table 5 (continued)

Description Application Type/Collection

methods

Strengths Weakness

Cordon Collect travel pattern

data; origins/
destinations at the
perimeter of a region;
routing patterns;
truck/commodity
type; vehicle/cargo
weight; and, shipper/
carrier/receiver
information

Modeling/planning: the
development of
Origin-
Destination(OD)
freight flow matrices,
commodity tonnage
distribution to truck
classes, empty and
through truck factors

Roadside postcard
survey distribution
to be mailed back

Less likely to disrupt
traffic than
roadside
interviews;
requires fewer
personnel.

Response rate is usually
lower, which could
result in significant
non-response bias

License plate recording/
matching out to be
returned

Does not disrupt traffic Lag between

observation and
survey reception
may lead to low
repones rates (and
bias) and high
recollection errors

Sources: (Beagan et al. 2007 , Jessup et al. 2004 , Cambridge Systematics 1996 , Miller et al. 1993 , Rizet et al. 2003 )