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Abstract
Building a Traffic Model for Inland ShippingTrack: Transportation and Logistics
Author(s): Bert Vermeij, Hanno Uitenboogaart
Co-Presenter: Hanno Uitenboogaart
Traffic models are used to justify investments in new multimodal terminals, the improvement of the waterway infrastructure, and for policy studies in general. The aim of the BVMS model for inland shipping traffic is to predict future streams of commodities transported by inland shipping between economic regions and to translate these into movements of ships on the waterways network.
With this model, the policymakers in the Netherlands will be able to compare different scenarios with each other or with a reference situation. Spatial data, both on the waterway infrastructure and on traffic flows, is the backbone of the model and therefore GIS has a central place in its design.
ArcInfo 8 is used for data management, case management, and visualization and analyses of the model output.
Bert Vermeij
Esri Nederland
Stationsplein 45
PO BOX 29020
Rotterdam, 3001 GA
Rotterdam
Phone: +31-10-2170700
Fax: +31-10-2170799
E-mail: b.vermeij@Esrinl.com