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Estimated Data Production for Urban
Goods Transport Diagnosis

The Freturb Methodology

Jesus Gonzalez-Feliu, Florence Toilier, Christian Ambrosini
and Jean-Louis Routhier

Abstract Nowadays, it is crucial to obtain sound data for establishing diagnoses
of urban goods movements (UGM). Since surveys are usually difficult to imple-
ment and become very expensive when large amounts of detailed data are
required, they are not systematically carried out in various cities around the world.
Moreover, unlike individual mobility, public authorities generally do not supervise
urban goods transport as they depend essentially on the private sector. The
research proposed here focuses on a framework for simulating data production
using standard inputs that can be obtained by public authorities (and private
stakeholders), in order to estimate the impacts of urban goods transport in the light
of current practices, i.e. to make a diagnosis of urban logistics in current config-
urations. The joint process of collecting data and modelling is described after
which the different modules and applications are presented.

Keywords Diagnosis Shopping trips Town management Urban deliveries
Urban goods modelling

1 Introduction

For the last two decades, congestion, lack of space and environmental impacts have
led to increasing concern given to the supply processes of urban areas (Routhier
2013 ). Moreover, both public authorities and private stakeholders are paying ever