SimMobility Freight: An agent-based urban freight simulator for evaluating logistics solutions

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SimMobility Freight: An agent-based urban freight simulator for evaluating logistics solutions

Sakai, Takanori / Romano Alho, André / Bhavathrathan, B.K. / Chiara, Giacomo Dalla / Gopalakrishnan, Raja / Jing, Peiyu / Hyodo, Tetsuro / Cheah, Lynette / Ben-Akiva, Moshe

Abstract

Highlights • An agent-based freight simulator is proposed for evaluating logistics solutions. • SimMobility Freight is integrated into an urban transportation simulation platform. • Long-term model simulates commodity contracts and goods vehicle overnight parking. • Mid-term model simulates logistics planning, vehicle operations, and traffic flows. • The impacts of the regulations of delivery time windows are predicted.

Abstract Despite significant advances in freight transport modeling in recent years, there is still lack of available tools for evaluating novel logistics solutions. We introduce the framework of SimMobility Freight, which is part of SimMobility, a multi-scale agent-based urban transportation simulation platform. SimMobility Freight is capable of simulating commodity contracts, logistics and vehicle operation planning and parking decisions in a fully-disaggregate manner. This allows us to evaluate alternative logistics solutions and measure their impacts. To illustrate its capability, we conduct an analysis of delivery time window regulations, assessing the policy impacts.

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Title :

SimMobility Freight: An agent-based urban freight simulator for evaluating logistics solutions

Contributors:

Sakai, Takanori (author) / Romano Alho, André (author) / Bhavathrathan, B.K. (author) / Chiara, Giacomo Dalla (author) / Gopalakrishnan, Raja (author) / Jing, Peiyu (author) / Hyodo, Tetsuro (author) / Cheah, Lynette (author) / Ben-Akiva, Moshe (author)

Published in:

Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review ; 141

Publication date :

2020-06-21

ISSN :

1366-5545

DOI :

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tre.2020.102017

Type of media :

Article (Journal)

Type of material :

Electronic Resource