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Commercial Freight Trips

Overview

The commercial freight table contains information about fully disaggregate, individual commercial freight trips for a typical weekday and weekend day in each season. Each row of data corresponds to one trip. Data is released twice a year and is available for download in CSV format.

Schema

Field Name

Content Type

Sample Value

Description

activity_id

String

15323941267251300000

A randomly assigned unique identifier defined for each trip. A trip is defined as travel between two locations with a discrete purpose at the origin and destination. Some intermediate stops with short dwell time may be captured within a single trip. Criteria for this dwell time may vary. Examples of trips:
• Home > Work,
• Work > Gym,
• Shop > Eat,
• Home > Starbucks drive-thru > Work

person_id

String

4339817784218880000

A randomly assigned unique identifier for each person modeled within the synthetic population.

household_id

String

14408018579505000000

A randomly assigned unique identifier for each household modeled within the synthetic population.

mode

String

COMMERCIAL

The primary transportation mode used for the trip. A trip is often made up of multiple travel modes, such as a journey to work that includes a walk to a rail station followed by a subway ride. In this case two modes were used by the traveler during their trip, walking and public transit. Only the primary mode of travel across a set of trip segments is included. The primary mode is determined using the following ranking: 1) Public transit, 2) Driving (private auto)/Auto passenger/Taxi/TNC, 3) Biking, 4) Walking. This table is limited to the following:
• COMMERCIAL: Trips made by medium and heavy trucks

travel_purpose

String

COMMERCIAL

All values in this table are:
• COMMERCIAL: Trips by medium and heavy trucks for deliveries and other commercial purposes

tour_type

String

OTHER_HOME_BASED

Indicates what type of tour included this trip. Tours are travel events that start at one location and return to that same location. All values in this table are:
• OTHER_HOME_BASED: Tours that started and ended at home, excluding commutes e.g. Home > Shop > Eat > Home

previous_activity_type

String

COMMERCIAL

The activity assigned to a synthetic person prior to starting travel. All values in this table are:
• COMMERCIAL: Trips by medium and heavy trucks for deliveries and other commercial purposes

timezone

String

America/Los_Angeles

Timezone of the trip’s start location, using standard tz naming conventions.

start_time

Time

2019-01-10 06:08:00 America/Los_Angeles

Date and 24-hour time of trip start, reported as yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss timezone.

start_local_hour

Integer

12

Hour of day that the trip started, reported in the local time zone in 24-hour time format. Values in this field range between 0 and 23.

end_time

Time

2019-01-10 07:11:04 America/Los_Angeles

Date and 24-hour time of trip end, reported as yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss timezone.

end_local_hour

Integer

14

Hour of day that the trip ended, reported in the local time zone in 24-hour time format. Values in this field range between 0 and 23.

duration_minutes

Integer

63

Duration of trip in minutes, calculated as the difference between the trip start_time and end_time.

distance_miles

Float

10.79997335

Distance in miles measured along the trip route.

transit_route_ids

String

NULL for this table

network_link_ids

String

10541610554341416382

Unique ID assigned to the link (road segment) that the trip is associated with.

vehicle_type

String (Len 20)

MEDIUM_COMMERCIAL

The vehicle type assigned to the vehicle of the synthetic trip. Valid values are:
• MEDIUM_COMMERCIAL: Medium-duty commercial vehicles (14,000 - 26,000 lbs)
• HEAVY _ COMMERCIAL: Heavy-duty commercial vehicles (>26,00 lbs)
Note: If values are NULL, this means that this data is not available for the region yet but we hope to have it soon.

vehicle_fuel_technology

String

ICE

The fuel technology assigned to the vehicle of the synthetic trip. Valid values are:
• ICE
• BEV
• FCV
• PHEV
• UNKNOWN_FUEL_TECHNOLOGY
Note: If values are NULL, this means that this data is not available for the region yet but we hope to have it soon.

origin_bgrp

String(Len 12)

410510010004

The US Census Bureau-assigned FIPS code of the block group from which the trip originated.

origin_bgrp_lat

Float

45.492294

Latitude of the geometric centroid for the origin block group, reported in decimal degrees, WGS 84.

origin_bgrp_lng

Float

-122.65334

Longitude of the geometric centroid for the origin block group, reported in decimal degrees, WGS 84.

destination_bgrp

String (Len 12)

410510079001

US Census Bureau-assigned FIPS of the block group in which the trip ended.

destination_bgrp_lat

Float

45.557407

Latitude of the geometric centroid for the destination block group, reported in decimal degrees, WGS 84.

destination_bgrp_lng

Float

-122.54931

Longitude of the geometric centroid for the destination block group, reported in decimal degrees, WGS 84.

origin_land_use_l1

String

residential

The primary land use category of the trip origin. Valid values are:
• residential
• commercial
• mixed_use
• industrial
• civic_institutional
• transportation_utilities
• open space
• agriculture
• other
• unknown

origin_land_use_l2

String

single_family

The secondary land use category of the trip origin. Valid values are:
• single_family
• multi_family
• office
• retail
• non_retail_attraction
• education
• healthcare
• military
• civic_institutional
• ​​transportation_utilities
• open_space
• agriculture
• other
• unknown

destination_land_use_l1

String

commercial

The primary land use category of the trip destination. Valid values are:
• residential
• commercial
• mixed_use
• industrial
• civic_institutional
• transportation_utilities
• open space
• agriculture
• other
• unknown

destination_land_use_l2

String

non_retail_attraction

The secondary land use category of the trip destination. Valid values are:
• single_family
• multi_family
• office
• retail
• non_retail_attraction
• education
• healthcare
• military
• civic_institutional
• ​​transportation_utilities
• open_space
• agriculture
• other
• unknown

origin_building_use_l1

String

residential

The primary building use category of the trip origin. Valid values are:
• residential
• commercial
• industrial
• civic_institutional
• transportation_utilities
• open space
• agriculture
• other
• unknown

origin_building_use_l2

String

single_family

The secondary building use category of the trip origin. Valid values are:
• single_family
• multi_family
• office
• retail
• non_retail_attraction
• education
• healthcare
• military
• civic_institutional
• ​​transportation_utilities
• open_space
• agriculture
• other
• unknown

destination_building_use_l1

String

commercial

The primary building use category of the trip destination. Valid values are:
• residential
• commercial
• industrial
• civic_institutional
• transportation_utilities
• open space
• agriculture
• other
• unknown

destination_building_use_l2

String

non_retail_attraction

The secondary building use category of the trip destination. Valid values are:
• single_family
• multi_family
• office
• retail
• non_retail_attraction
• education
• healthcare
• military
• civic_institutional
• ​​transportation_utilities
• open_space
• agriculture
• other
• unknown

trip_type

String

II

Indicates whether or not the trip started or ended inside or outside of the core model region. Valid values are:
• II: core > core region
• IE: core > donut region
• EI: donut region > core region
• EE: donut region > donut region