Research Article

Freight Demand Distribution in a Suburban Area: Calibration of an Acquisition Model with Floating Car Data

Table 2

Aggregated data on socioeconomic attributes (for model calibration).

AttributeUnits of measurementStudy areaZone
AverageCoefficient of variation

Number of commercial establishmentsNumber129.007.590.95
Surface of commercial establishmentsm240 249.002 367.590.94
Number of householdsNumber28 021.001 470.590.67
PopulationNumber72 222.003 842.000.72
Population densityNumber/km2105.32105.320.96
Retail employeesNumber2 314.00136.120.95
Wholesaler employeesNumber882.0051.881.20
Total commercial employeesNumber2 415.00218.291.13
Total employeesNumber14 271.00813.121.10
Retail employment densityNumber/km212.7812.781.56
Wholesale employment densityNumber/km24.704.701.59
Commercial employment densityNumber/km216.1916.191.15
Total employment densityNumber/km264.3464.341.30