Developing integrated microsimulation models for intra-urban, inter-regional and cross-border freight transportation: an application to Ontario, Canada

开发城市内、区域间和跨境货运的综合微观模拟模型：加拿大安大略省的应用

• 批准号: 386255-2011
• 负责人: Maoh, Hanna
• 金额: $ 1.75万
• 依托单位: University of Windsor
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Discovery Grants Program - Individual
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2011-01-01 至 2012-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=485241
• 关键词: Developing; integrated; microsimulation; models; intra

Freight transportation in Canada, as is the case in many industrialized countries, has grown substantially over the past 15 years. Globalization, the demand for cheap commodities and the reliance of our markets on cargo shipped by containers have fuelled this growth. Assessing the impacts of freight movement in a city and between regions is becoming one of the pressing issues for decision makers. The current knowledge on the relationship between freight movement and the performance of transportation systems is very limited. The lack of knowledge in this area can impact our quality of life in the future. Therefore, there is a need for an active research program in this area. In the Canadian context, the Province of Ontario is fertile ground for research on freight movement. Ontario is the economic heartland of Canada. As such, a lot of goods movement and trucking takes place within and between Ontario's different local markets, ports, border crossing points and truckway corridors. To date, little has been done to extensively study freight travel in Ontario. Accordingly, the specific objectives of this research program are as follows: advance the current state of knowledge on freight movement in Ontario; collect and analyze firm-level (micro) data on freight transportation with emphasis on Windsor; Explain the travel behaviour of shippers, the modes used and the factors affecting the performance (e.g. cross-border delays) and movement of cargo; Develop integrated computer programs (i.e. simulation models) to propose sustainable strategies for goods movement in Ontario. The novelty of the proposed research program is twofold: (1) the work will rely on micro-level data. Little has been done to collect and analyze such detailed data in Canada, (2) the research program seeks to develop and apply a suite of integrated freight models. To our knowledge, this is the first attempt to combine models that simulate intra-urban, inter-regional and cross-border freight transportation processes. This approach will provide more realism and enhance the expected outcomes of the models. Overall, this research program will push forward the development of operational models that are behavioural, policy sensitive and suitable for long-term freight travel planning.

在过去的15年中，加拿大的货运运输公司（在许多工业化国家中）已经大大增加。全球化，对廉价商品的需求以及我们市场对集装箱运输的货物的依赖促进了这一增长。评估城市中货运运动的影响以及区域之间的影响正在成为决策者的紧迫问题之一。当前关于货运和运输系统性能之间关系的知识非常有限。在这一领域缺乏知识会影响我们未来的生活质量。因此，需要在该领域进行积极的研究计划。在加拿大的情况下，安大略省是货运运动研究的肥沃基础。安大略省是加拿大的经济心脏地带。因此，许多商品运输和卡车运输发生在安大略省不同的当地市场，港口，过境点和卡车道走廊之间。迄今为止，几乎没有什么可以广泛研究安大略省的货运旅行。因此，该研究计划的具体目标如下：推进安大略省货运运动的当前知识状态；收集和分析有关货运运输的公司级别（微）数据，重点是温莎；解释托运人的旅行行为，所使用的模式以及影响绩效（例如跨境延迟）和货物移动的因素；开发集成的计算机程序（即仿真模型），以提出安大略省商品运动的可持续策略。拟议的研究计划的新颖性是双重的：（1）工作将依赖于微观数据。在加拿大收集和分析此类详细数据几乎没有采取的措施，（2）该研究计划旨在开发和应用一套集成的货运模型。据我们所知，这是结合模型来模拟城市内部，区域间和跨境货运过程的第一次尝试。这种方法将提供更多的现实主义并增强模型的预期结果。总体而言，该研究计划将推动行为，政策敏感且适合长期货运旅行计划的运营模型的发展。