Planning, designing and conducting establishment-based freight surveys: A synthesis of the literature, case-study examples and recommendations for best practices …

A Pani, PK Sahu - Transport Policy, 2019 - Elsevier
The state-of-practice in planning, designing, and conducting freight surveys leave much to
be desired, even in the era of big data analytics. This paper addresses this issue by …

Freight traffic impacts and logistics inefficiencies in India: Policy interventions and solution concepts for sustainable city logistics

PK Sahu, A Pani, G Santos - Transportation in Developing Economies, 2022 - Springer
Freight traffic fulfils not only the business needs of a region to move goods between
producers, manufacturers, and end consumers, but also creates a host of unintended …

Freight activity-travel pattern generation (FAPG) as an enhancement of freight (trip) generation modelling: Methodology and case study

A Pani, PK Sahu, L Tavasszy, S Mishra - Transport Policy, 2023 - Elsevier
Trip-based models and activity-based models represent two extreme ends of the spectrum of
travel demand models in data granularity requirement and ability to reflect the underlying …

Comparative assessment of industrial classification systems for modeling freight production and freight trip production

A Pani, PK Sahu - Transportation Research Record, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Freight demand models typically employ a priori classification systems for dividing
establishments into hypothetically complementary groups with homogeneous patterns in …

Modelling non-response in establishment-based freight surveys: A sampling tool for statewide freight data collection in middle-income countries

A Pani, PK Sahu - Transport Policy, 2022 - Elsevier
Non-response is unavoidable in any disaggregate-level survey efforts where information is
sought from individuals. There is a strong need to understand the contributing factors of non …

Sustainable freight transportation planning and policies for a logistics-driven India: Current state and future ahead

A Pani, PK Sahu, BB Majumdar - … Research in India: Practices and Future …, 2022 - Springer
Freight transport is a critical supply chain element for delivering goods 'just-in-time'to
retailers, warehouses, and end-consumers in cities and metropolitan areas around the …

Designing zoning systems for freight transportation planning: a GIS-based approach for automated zone design using public data sources

A Chandra, A Pani, PK Sahu - Transportation Research Procedia, 2020 - Elsevier
The first step in transportation planning studies is the discretization of study area into
numerous zones. Zoning systems are expected to reflect the characteristics of the area they …