Freight Transport and the Environment

货物运输和环境。货运是城市地区交通拥堵和环境恶化的主要原因，并给最终消费和贸易条件增加了相当大的成本，但我们目前缺乏任何政策丰富的预测需求模型。该计划填补了这一空白。利用供应链联盟的思想，规定的选择方法和行为模型，我们开发了一个研究计划，以了解和预测的环境和交通影响的货运配送任务的关键商品类的原产地，目的地，行程时间，路由，选择的车辆类型和方式，合并进行货运配送。

Freight Transport and the Environment. Freight transport is a major contributor to traffic congestion and environmental blight in urban areas and adds sizeable costs to final consumption and the terms of trade, yet we currently lack any policy-rich predictive demand models. This program fills this gap. Using ideas from supply chain alliance, stated choice methods and behavioural models we develop a research program to understand and predict the environmental and traffic impacts of the freight distribution task for key commodity classes in respect of origin, destination, trip timing, routing, selection of vehicle type and the way that consolidation is undertaken in freight distribution.