Study of Current Patterns in Truck Deliveries to Commercial Districts, Based on the Characteristics of the Large-Scale Retail Stores they Contain, and the Impact of Consolidation Measures to Reduce the Number of Deliveries

There are characteristics of truck movements in the commercial districts with a high concentration of stores. Our analysis on the characteristics of the 13 commercial districts in Tokyo, suggests that there can be large differences in the number of truck deliveries to a commercial district, and the difference is strongly related to the retail segment of stores and the characteristic of the district they locate. And it also suggests that the truck deliveries to a commercial district and the potential reduction by considering only the characteristics of each retail segment are possibly overestimated. And the biggest difference of the ratio of potential reduction is 24.0%, among the 13 commercial districts.