Scaling Urban Logistics Microsimulation: Traffic Analysis Zone Similarity Assessment to Estimate Simulation Results

Emilian Szczepański; Jan Paszkowski; Marianna Jacyna; Kai Wang; Jiajing Gao

doi:10.2991/978-94-6463-972-8_4

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Scaling Urban Logistics Microsimulation: Traffic Analysis Zone Similarity Assessment to Estimate Simulation Results

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Emilian Szczepański¹^{, *}, Jan Paszkowski¹, Marianna Jacyna¹, Kai Wang², Jiajing Gao³

¹Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, 00-662, Poland

²Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China

³Shanghai University, Shanghai, 200444, China

^*Corresponding author. Email: emilian.szczepanski@pw.edu.pl

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Emilian Szczepański

Available Online 29 December 2025.

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Keywords: Freight Traffic Modelling; Traffic Analysis Zone Similarity; Urban Logistics
Abstract: This article presents a method of assessing a similarity of the traffic analysis zones to the given base zone. For the research purposes, three variants of data to compare similarity have been used. First variant of are the GIS urban development data combined with the travel motivation data. Second are the energy consumption data for the available vehicle types and third variant are the post infrastructure data, such as post offices and parcel lockers. For the validation of the similarity, the chosen twin-similar zones have been tested in the microsimulation model in Flexsim software. In this model, a package delivery process have been simulated in three scenarios. First is a package delivery for the specific address, second is the delivery to the package locker and the third is the delivery by the parcel locker directly to the address by the delivery drones. The results of the simulation will be compared between variant zones and the reference zone to discover which variant of the similarity data are most suitable for the delivery traffic reproduction.
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Volume Title: Proceedings of the 14th Asia-Pacific Conference on Transportation and the Environment (APTE 2025)
Series: Atlantis Highlights in Engineering
Publication Date: 29 December 2025
ISBN: 978-94-6463-972-8
ISSN: 2589-4943
DOI: 10.2991/978-94-6463-972-8_4 How to use a DOI?
Open Access: Open Access This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits any noncommercial use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made.

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