Conceptual System Model of Transport and Traffic
2. Activities
On this page, the first element „Activities“ of the conceptual system model will be presented to you.
Activities are driving the system and require the presence of persons and goods at specific facilities that are specially designed to incorporate certain types of activities.
Each such activity creates the demand to ensure accession to the facility where the activity is scheduled to take place. This creates the demand for offering transport options. When the transport option is realised, traffic is generated.
Thus all demand is a derived demand, which are all generated by the planning and execution of human activities.
To better illustrate this, here are a few examples for goods movement relevant activities:
- design of products
- procurement strategies
- production concepts
- distribution concepts
- waste management
- re-distribution concepts
- location choice
Literature
Flämig, H.; Sjöstedt, L.; Hertel, C. (2002): Multimodal Transport: An Integrated Element for Last-Mile-Solutions? In: Conference Proceeding of the International Conference “Freight Transport Automation and Multimodality. Organisational and Technological Innovations,Delft, Niederlande