Titel:
Abstract:
Recent policy in Finland regarding retail trade for daily
products has been to invest in large shopping centres and
hypermarkets located outside main city areas, often close to
traffic interchanges. This has led to a number of problems. Small
local shops located in the city have had difficulties in
surviving. Often these large shopping areas can only be reached
by car, which causes problems for those without private
transportation possibilities. For retailers, however, these
centres represent a logistically efficient way to operate with
respect to both goods supply and customer demand. Thus, the
traffic effects and the economic and environmental efficiency of
such strategies can be questioned. Is it from the vantage point
of society better to make longer but less frequent trips compared
to the older pattern of frequent local trips? This study examined
different locational alternatives: large shopping areas outside
the city versus shops located at various places throughout the
city and an alternative, where shopping is partly done by
electronic commerce with home deliveries. The aim was to measure
and compare the traffic effects of these approaches. As a result
it was found out that locating four new hypermarkets in the
region would increase the yearly mileage of private car traffic
and goods transport by 6 percent. The land-use alternative, where
there were no hypermarkets, would decrease the yearly mileage by
25 percent and the land-use alternative of home shopping would
decrease the yearly mileage by 17 percent.
Forfattare:
Forskare Risto Murto, Trafik och transportteknik, Tammerfors
tekniska högskola
Keywords:
Logit model, mode choice, goods transport, traffic/land-use
interaction, traffic effects, environmental effects
Session:
Byplanlægning og trafik
År:
1996
Konferencerapport
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