Author(s)

J.R. Eriksson

Abstract

Possible forecasting models for urban freight transport will described and discussed. They differ mainly from the national models in the sense that a single transport route often includes many destinations and not just one. Another important difference is that some transport services are not periodical in the same way that nearly all long-distance transports and many distribution transports are. The model system and the practical application mentioned here is one of the main candidates for a forthcoming case study of the Stockholm region. 1 Introduction The possibilities of forecasting the demand for freight transport and its distribution are of great importance to, for example, investments in infrastructure. There are methods with different ways of forecasting freight transport. Some of them ar

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