Incorporating logistics decisions in activity-based freight modeling

Abstract

Recent trends in transport models have moved away from the traditional four steps models to activity-based models. One important aspect of an activity-based freight model is to take logistics choices, such as the shipment size, into consideration. In the past, most transport models focused on modeling passenger flows, for which they use discrete choice models to decide on the modal split. For freight modeling these models have to be adapted to take into account the logistics decisions.