ABSTRACT
Freight activities in an urban area and the truck movements associated with them are generated by the land use patterns within that area. A succinct statement of the issues in relation to urban freight and land use patterns has been presented by Arun Chatterjee, as follows: It is well known in urban transportation that traffic is generated by land use and that the locations of activity centres influence travel patterns. Decisions about the zoning of land for industrial, commercial and transport purposes should give due consideration to transport infrastructure, to ensure sensible use of existing resources. Zoning is the practice, widely if not universally adopted in modern industrial countries, of prescribing the uses to which individual pieces of land may be put. It is axiomatic that if land uses are heavy generators of freight traffic, the costs of moving freight will be reduced if those generators are located with good access to transport infrastructure, ceteris paribus.
