GPS-based data production in urban freight distribution

Jesus Gonzalez-Feliu (1) , Pascal Pluvinet (1) , Marc Serouge (1) , Mathieu Gardrat (1)

1 LET - Laboratoire d'économie des transports

This chapter aims to investigate the contribution of GPS survey techniques for urban goods movement characterization, and to diagnosis the implementation and application issues related to the introduction of real-time data transmission procedures and phone tools with integrated GPS devices. We propose a GPS-based data collection method for urban freight route characterization using a Smartphone application. After testing and calibrating the data processing tool, we analyse the main results on a baseline of about 900 tours with the R software. This chapter defined the characteristics of the overall routes as well as the environmental impacts linked with the categories of roads, urban highways, main roads and residential streets. Moreover, this chapter showed the driver's environmental behaviour was related to the main activity of the carriers. Finally, the complementarity between GPS-surveys and traditional urban freight surveys was discussed.

Mots clés: GPS; data collection; urban logistics; state-of-the-art

Domaines: Gestion et management; Algorithme et structure de données [cs.DS]

Jesus Gonzalez-Feliu, Pascal Pluvinet, Marc Serouge, Mathieu Gardrat. GPS-based data production in urban freight distribution. 2013. ⟨halshs-00784079⟩