A new statistical approach for China road freight transport at a subnational level.
Currently, there is a large deviation between official road freight data and real road freight performance at a subnational level in China. In order to deal with this deviation, the new concept of local freight tonnage and ton-kilometers is presented in this paper based on the territoriality princip...
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| description | Currently, there is a large deviation between official road freight data and real road freight performance at a subnational level in China. In order to deal with this deviation, the new concept of local freight tonnage and ton-kilometers is presented in this paper based on the territoriality principle, where either the origin or the destination of goods transported is local. Also, the statistic procedures and estimation models of the local freight tonnage and ton-kilometers are proposed based on five accessible basic datasets. Finally, an empirical study in Sichuan province of China is conducted. The statistical results show that there is a large amount of local freight transported by local non-commercial trucks and non-local trucks, which is ignored in the existing road freight statistics. Especially, the higher the level of local economic development, the greater the deviation between the official road freight data and the real road freight performance at a subnational level. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-082e9ce37ec84a5891e663323d9a0b622023-11-03T05:32:38ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032023-01-011810e028798310.1371/journal.pone.0287983A new statistical approach for China road freight transport at a subnational level.Fuyou HuangJianbo WangWenying XieBin ChenChao MaCurrently, there is a large deviation between official road freight data and real road freight performance at a subnational level in China. In order to deal with this deviation, the new concept of local freight tonnage and ton-kilometers is presented in this paper based on the territoriality principle, where either the origin or the destination of goods transported is local. Also, the statistic procedures and estimation models of the local freight tonnage and ton-kilometers are proposed based on five accessible basic datasets. Finally, an empirical study in Sichuan province of China is conducted. The statistical results show that there is a large amount of local freight transported by local non-commercial trucks and non-local trucks, which is ignored in the existing road freight statistics. Especially, the higher the level of local economic development, the greater the deviation between the official road freight data and the real road freight performance at a subnational level.https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0287983&type=printable |
| spellingShingle | Fuyou Huang Jianbo Wang Wenying Xie Bin Chen Chao Ma A new statistical approach for China road freight transport at a subnational level. PLoS ONE |
| title | A new statistical approach for China road freight transport at a subnational level. |
| title_full | A new statistical approach for China road freight transport at a subnational level. |
| title_fullStr | A new statistical approach for China road freight transport at a subnational level. |
| title_full_unstemmed | A new statistical approach for China road freight transport at a subnational level. |
| title_short | A new statistical approach for China road freight transport at a subnational level. |
| title_sort | new statistical approach for china road freight transport at a subnational level |
| url | https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0287983&type=printable |
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