Abstract
Even though road transport is an essential part of freight distribution, there is a lack of customized routing networks to convey freight over the road. The present paper addresses this deficit by proposing general principles to elaborate a regional freight route network in Flanders. However, assigning regional freight traffic to a particular road network involves complex trade-offs between multiple interests, such as corporate accessibility, communal livability, additional network links and available space. The paper recommends the multi-actor multi-criteria assessment tool (MAMCA) to incorporate stakeholder objectives in the evaluation of possible freight network scenarios. The tool is applied for the specific case of Anzegem, a road village amid regional freight attraction poles that suffers particularly from heavy freight flows. The impact of four alternative ring ways is assessed according to the interests of the involved parties and compared to the reference scenario. Results show that transport companies advocate supra-local accessibility, while governmental and citizen stakeholders value traffic safety and livability. Since the reference scenario does not comply with these critical stakeholder objectives, an alternate scenario is proposed. As such, MAMCA applications assist policy-makers in building consensus among multiple actors in the realization of transportation projects.
Highlights
Despite several strategies to enhance the modal shift of freight transport, the amount of European road tonne-kilometres is predicted to increase from 1711 billion in 2005 up to 2812 billion in 2050, maintaining a modal share of 40% [1]
These priority matrices are illustrated by performance figures (Figures 9–11) per actor group to disclose the preferences of the stakeholders towards the individual ring way alternatives
The present paper proposed generic principles to construct a regional freight road network and applied a participatory methodology, which integrates stakeholder objectives in the decision-process of assigning regional freight traffic to a specific road network
Summary
Despite several strategies to enhance the modal shift of freight transport, the amount of European road tonne-kilometres is predicted to increase from 1711 billion in 2005 up to 2812 billion in 2050, maintaining a modal share of 40% [1]. These inevitable facts require research on truck road infrastructure and the impact of the freight that they convey. Several additional studies specify technical design requirements, i.e., road pavement material, load factor, lane width and road alignment, in order to reduce road maintenance costs of heavy freight traffic [10,11,12].
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