Abstract
Abstract Limited freight loading space provision in city centers increases illegal loading behaviors such as double parking or parking in bicycle lanes or sidewalks. Such traffic violations have ca...
Highlights
Demand for urban freight deliveries to both businesses and residences has increased substantially in the past decade
Unlike minimum parking requirements, Minimum offstreet loading requirements (MOLRs), in a progressive way, define the minimum number of loading spaces each type of land uses should provide with regard to the gross floor area of operation
Minimum offstreet loading requirements are supposed to be consistent with the amount of freight delivery trips different land uses can generate, the design of MOLRs is relatively rough in many cities
Summary
Demand for urban freight deliveries to both businesses and residences has increased substantially in the past decade. Bomar et al (2009) noted that, “the limited number of loading/unloading zones available, in addition to the number of vehicles using the spaces for long-term parking, has forced many trucks and other large vehicles to double-park, thereby reducing the capacity of the affected street by one lane of traffic.”. Such difficulties in finding loading spaces have caused increased congestion, air pollution, noise, road safety concern, and fuel consumption (Chatterjee et al 2008). Other demand-side research assessed the parking behaviors of commercial vehicles in different land uses (Giron-Valderrama et al 2019) and the roles of stakeholders who use the loading zones (Goodchild and Ivanov 2017)
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