Research into the possibilities for introducing an innovative freight transport.

Author(s)
Takahashi, Y. Imanishi, Y. & Kasima, S.
Year
Abstract

Due to a rapid increase in the volume of freight traffic especially in cities, urban centers suffer from acute traffic congestion. Deterioration of roadside environment has also been widely observed. There is a limit, however, as to how much of these problems can be mitigated within the context of current distribution system, which sorely depends on manned vehicles using internal-combustion-engine that operate above ground. There is an urgent need to develop a new, more sophisticated goods distribution system to significantly change the status quo. This dissertation explores the possibility of adopting an ITS (Intelligent Transport System) system in which electric-vehicles are operated in underground tunnels. Using the Tokyo words as a case study area, a traffic simulation and a cost-benefit analysis on this New Freight Transport System are conducted. For the covering abstract see ITRD E114174.

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Library number
C 24570 (In: C 22454 CD-ROM) /72 / ITRD E115723
Source

In: From vision to reality : proceedings of the 7th World Congress on Intelligent Transportation Systems ITS, Turin, Italy, 6-9 November 2000, 8 p.

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