Project number: MF-1.1d

Funding source: Volvo Research and Educational Foundations

Performance period: 1/1/2016 to 4/1/2018

Project description

The Seoul Metropolitan Government has been interested in realigning the city logistics policy to develop the sustainable management strategies for the quality of parcel services in the City of Seoul. It is significant to understand the spatial pattern of parcel freight movement within the city for developing the appropriate strategies. This research aims at planning the city logistics policy and developing the sustainable management strategies for the parcel services of quality in the City of Seoul. In order to meet this research goal, this study begins first with constructing a parcel freight O-D matrix for the Seoul Metropolitan Area (SMA), and secondly, it conducts correlation and regression analyses in order to explore which factors influence the productions and attractions of parcel freight transportation within the SMA. Nineteen variables are selected out of four categories of socio-economic indicators related to population, industry, housing, and income to analyze, and the OD data of parcel freight flows transported by one of the major parcel service companies in Korea for 2013 are utilized. Analysis results show that parcel freight inflows are highly correlated with population, housing, and income indicators, while outflows are strongly correlated to industry indicators. This study concludes that each district (Gu) has its own socio-economic characteristics which affect the productions and attractions of parcel freight. It implies that city logistics policy needs to reflect each district's diverse socio-economic characteristics as well as their approach in a general view.