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Some of this would take the form of household expenditure surveys, possibly extended to allow self-allocation to the frequency of purchase and indicate parcels of goods purchases simultaneously or as part of the same out-of-home tour. Additional counts by vehicle types and interviews with owners and operators of urban freight distribution vehicles would be needed. A literature search triggered by this perspective on the problem would be useful. 3 Theoretical foundations of the suggested approach There is no formal theoretical foundation for the recommended model system as a whole.
November 2001 page 32 RAND Europe and Transek AB Ideas on freight model system for Sweden Input and output features of passenger demand models that should affect predictions of LGV activity. We are assuming that the necessary background data (behavioural diaries, contextual networks and zonal data, validation data) are available, as indeed is the case in Sweden. A modern disaggregate model like SAMPERS contains income information at the zonal level and a prototypical sample of household units. Network speeds in the base year will also be available, together with a base -matrix of passenger flows, preferably along with counts by vehicle type.
Light services) are not usually included in freight transport, but these should be accounted for somewhere in a national model system, because all types of road vehicles matter when it comes to assignment to the road network. All of these ‘destinations’ generate movements of ‘freight’ for taking things away, too; however, waste disposal activities are not pursued further in this section. Note that ‘mail’ nowadays includes messenger -service parcel deliveries on an increasing scale in business areas.