Takumi WADA

Evaluation of Rest Function of Freight Vehicles Using a Simplified Method

Kazushi Sano Takao Takahashi

There is a previous study in this research, which evaluated the rest function of truck drivers focused on roadside stations. However, the evaluation method is complex and difficult to replicate in the same way. Therefore, this study simplifies the method of previous studies and evaluates roadside stations.
Therefore, this study focuses on roadside stations and aims to evaluate the rest function in freight vehicles, but it is difficult to perform the same method in existing studies because of the difficulty of the methodology. Therefore, a simplified rest function for freight vehicles is evaluated by constructing a simple estimation model of the number of stops and calculating the benefits of using a roadside station.
To this end, the stopping rate at roadside stations is calculated using ETC2.0 data. The number of vehicles stopping at the roadside station is estimated using this value and the frontal road traffic volume at the roadside station.
A simple model for estimating the number of vehicles stopped was constructed by using the estimated number of vehicles stopped as the objective variable and calculating the explanatory variables using a cubic mesh.
The predicted value was calculated from the number of stops estimation model, and multiplied by the benefit of using one freight vehicle to calculate the benefit of using the roadside station.The tertiary mesh with the highest utilization benefit for each prefecture was calculated for each of the six prefectures in the Kanto region as an indicator for the establishment of new roadside stations.