Understanding truck movements to improve the strategic freight model for the state of Queensland.
This case study uses Compass custom services.
Transport authorities maintain complex transport models to understand the current and future state of their network. Particularly with regards to freight and goods/services vehicles, there is currently very little temporal data to inform these models, other than economic data.
Compass IOT was asked to provide, based on specifically identified goods, services and prime move vehicles models, origin-destination outputs to better inform these models.
Traditionally understanding freight movements was done from a mixture of tube counts, and economic and production data. Importantly this data did not explain which routes vehicles take, how long they travel, where they started and ended, and what, if any stops were taken along the way.
To solve the above, Compass IOT was asked to select vehicle makes/models that were either prime movers or goods and services. Compass IOT was to provide an OD matrix based on 79 zones in South Eastern Queensland covering Brisbane, the Gold Coast, Ipswich, Logan, and Sunshine Coast.
The resulting OD pattern looked as below:
The makes and models included in the query included vans, utes, heavy vehicles and some commercial SUVs.
The image below shows the real distance travelled by the mentioned vehicles.
The origin-destination output included:
- Raw volume counts
- Average real distance (metres)
- Average crow distance (metres)
- Average trip time (minutes)
- Average morning peak trip time (minutes)
- Average afternoon peak trip time (minutes)
- Distance
In addition to this output, the pathing of vehicles, particularly demonstrating which roads were being utilised for certain freight routes, including where vehicles stop, deliver, and otherwise use public/private infrastructure (such as rest spots) was requested.
Compass IOT provided the pathing, with user anonymisation to deliver highly granular pathing and movement flow, including the timing of the trip, exact path, and travel time.