Are Freight Production Models Transferable between Urban and Suburban Areas? Guiding Model Transfer in Geographically Sprawling Indian Cities

Investigating the spatial transferability of freight generation (FG) models is an imperative research need to enable usage formerly estimated model parameters in new application contexts with or without local data. By understanding how transfer (and what extent), planning agencies large countries like India can save survey costs regions where they lack institutional capacity and resources. Due geographically sprawling nature most Indian cities, important question regarding whether developed for urban areas provide accurate estimates activity suburban vice versa. This paper aims two solutions this problem: (i) compare relative effectiveness depending up on direction (ii) assess which be transferred cannot. Data collected from seven cities are used study. A set production (FP) using data understand differential influence geographical location industry segment coefficients. The FP show that establishments exhibit significantly higher rates as compared other establishments. Subsequently, accuracy determined standard metrics such R2, aggregate error index. findings will actionable insights into development constraints, great value era declining budgets travel surveys.