Data Collection for Understanding Urban Goods Movement - Sustainable Urban Logistics: Concepts, Methods and Information Systems - page 74

Table 1 Urban freight data collected in the countries surveyed
Type of data collection exercise/
survey

Belgium France Germany Hungary Italy Netherlands Portugal Spain Sweden Switerland United

Kingdom

Commodity flow survey 4 NS 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 4 NS 4 NS 3

Site/land use/establishment surveys 4 NS 4 SUS 4 NS 3 3 4 RS 3 4 OUS 3 4 4 SUS

Goods vehicle activity surveys
(including driver diary surveys)

4 NS 4 NS 4 NS 4 SUS 4 NS 4 SUS 4 NS 4 NS 4 NS 4 NS 4 NS

Shipper surveys 4 OUS 4 NS 4 SUS 3 4 CD 3 3 4 SUS 3 4 NS 3

Receiver surveys 4 SUS 4 SUS 4 SUS 3 4 SUS 4 SUS 3 4 SUS 3 4 NS 4 SUS

Good vechicle fleet licensing data 4 NS 4 NS 4 NS 4 SUS 4 NS 4 NS 4 NS 4 RS 4 NS 4 NS 4 NS

Traffic counts 4 AUS 4 AUS 4 NS 4 SUS 4 SUS 4 SUS 4 NS 4 SUS 4 NS 4 SUS 4 AUS

Distribution industry surveys 3 44CD 3 4 CD 4 NS/CD 3334 4 CD

Vehicle operating surveys 4 NS ? NS 4 CD 3 4 NS 4 CD 3 4 RS 3 4 CD 4 CD

Loading/unloading/parking
infrastructure data for goods
vehicles

4 OUS 4 SUS 3 4 OUS 3 4 AUS 4 SUS 4 SUS 33 3

Data on road accidents involving
goods vehicles

4 NS 4 NS 4 NS 4 OUS 4 NS 4 NS 4 NS 4 AUS 4 NS 4 NS 4 NS

Data on lorry/lorry load thefts 4 NS 4 NS 4 CD 3 ? OUS 4 NS 3 ? ? 4 CD 4 NS

Employment surveys in freight
transport and logistics industry

4 NS 4 NS 4 NS 3 44NS 4 NS 4 NS ? ? 4 NS

Land use databases for town/city
needed for freight modeling

3 44NS 3 4 3 4 SUS ? ? ? 4 NS

Port freight traffic data in the urban
area

4 OUS 4 CD 4 CD 3 3 4 NS 3 ? ? ? 4 NS

Rail freight traffic data in the
urban area

4 ? 4 CD 3 3 4 OUS 3 ? ? ? 4 NS

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