Under this respect, freight behaviour research is a fundamental, yet understudied, subject [8].
Freight behaviour research aims at understanding agents' behaviour and exploring their preferences with respect to alternative system configurations [15, 16, 17].
Original Freight ITS research produced mainly stand-alone applications that can largely be classified in the following two broad areas: 1.
Data analysis and development of planning models have been a (relatively speaking) "poor relative" of the EU funded freight transport research.
To better understand how the Skl-style system performs under the magnitude of lateral loads observed on heavy haul freight railroads, research was conducted by the Rail Transportation and Engineering Center (RailTEC) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC).
The purpose of this paper is to review the developments of the last 15 years in the field of Freight Transport research and innovation, primarily (but not exclusively) in Europe focusing on the "Intelligent Transport Systems" aspects.
The "current" era of Freight ITS research is marked by the publication of the 2006 revision of the White paper on Transport policy of 2001, and the Lisbon and the Barcelona declarations27 that led to the creation of the European Research Area.
Afterwards a research of freight generation connected with freight trip generation models and flow by distribution problems in freight transport was conducted.
Albeit its aims and framework were purely research related, freight parking demand is a pressing planning issue and EBFS allow understanding urban freight movements in a way that can facilitate the definition of policies or plan to better accommodate parking demand.
