ABSTRACT
This chapter is concerned with the implementation of urban freight planning and policy. Generally, planning and policy concerns are reactive, in the sense that they respond to pressures and concerns made known through a political or professional process — truck intrusion into a residential street, regional air quality, downtown congestion, loss of jobs due to poor freight access, etc. There are a multitude of participants in the urban freight process. Almost any form of planning or policy-making needs at least a modicum of information about the freight system and the likely consequences of planning or policy action. However, a few general points can be made about data analysis and collection, and some suggestions offered about the sorts of urban freight data which are potentially useful in a planning or policy context. In general, transport system data may be either site-specific or regional. Regional transport data may be useful in metropolitan-wide or corridor transport infrastructure planning.
