Urban Freight and Road Safety: Trends and Innovative Strategies

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• Creators:
  McDonald, Noreen ; Lyons, Torrey ; Wang, Jueyu ; Cherry, Christopher ; Azad, Mojdeh ; Parajuli, Saurav ; Grembek, Offer
• Corporate Creators:
  University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ; University of Tennessee, Knoxville ; University of California, Berkeley
• Corporate Contributors:
  Collaborative Sciences Center for Road Safety ; United States. Department of Transportation. University Transportation Centers (UTC) Program ; United States. Department of Transportation. Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology ; United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  Crash Severity Freight Transportation Highway Safety Traffic Surveillance Urban Goods Movement Vehicle Size
• Publication/ Report Number:
  CSCRS-R30
• Resource Type:
  Other
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States;North Carolina;Tennessee
• Edition:
  Final Report, Slide Deck, Research Brief
• Corporate Publisher:
  Collaborative Sciences Center for Road Safety
• Abstract:
  The increasing freight demand in recent decades has posed road safety threats on urban local communities. This project addresses the urban freight road safety issues by (1) using data from North Carolina and Tennessee surveillance systems to evaluate the impacts of urban freight on road safety through detailed spatial and longitudinal analyses; (2) reviewing novel last-mile delivery options and identifying the advantages and disadvantages of these options in improving road safety. The spatial and longitudinal analyses reveal a statistically significant increase in the number of crashes between vulnerable road users and commercial vehicles in both North Carolina and Tennessee and find that light trucks and vans are less likely to produce severe and fatal compared to large commercial vehicles variables crashes. These results highlight the critical role of goods movement in road safety outcomes and the safety benefits of adopting smaller vehicles for last-mile delivery. The systematic review reveals that very limited studies have looked at the safety impacts of last-mile strategies, highlighting research needs on assessing safety impacts of these last-mile delivery strategies.
• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  Collaborative Sciences Center for Road Safety R30
• Collection(s):
  University Transportation Centers
• Main Document Checksum:
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• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/63327/dot_63327_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 3.53 MB ]