Simulating the effects of pedestrianisation on urban freight deliveries

The city of Seville is currently developing a land-use reorganisation policy aimed at increasing the number of pedestrian spaces. This paper contains the microscopic simulation built to assess one of those pedestrianisation initiatives from the point of view of its effects on traffic flows and, more...

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Autores: Onieva, Luis, Cortés, Pablo, Muñuzuri, Jesús, Guadix Martín, José
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2013
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Sevilla (US)
Repositorio:idUS. Depósito de Investigación de la Universidad de Sevilla
OAI Identifier:oai:idus.us.es:11441/23168
Acceso en línea:http://www.openstarts.units.it/dspace/bitstream/10077/8876/1/ET_2013_54_10%20Munuzuri%20et%20al..pdf
http://hdl.handle.net/11441/23168
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:City logistics
Urban transport
Microscopic simulation
Pedestrianisation
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Sumario:The city of Seville is currently developing a land-use reorganisation policy aimed at increasing the number of pedestrian spaces. This paper contains the microscopic simulation built to assess one of those pedestrianisation initiatives from the point of view of its effects on traffic flows and, more specifically, freight deliveries. Two different alternatives are compared with the current scenario from the point of view of traffic congestion, parking space occupation and route times. Due to the complexity of the freight delivery practices involved, the use of a standard traffic simulation package was not appropriate, and the simulations were carried out using the commercial package Arena, which enabled the representation of all that complexity with a specifically built simulation model.