Base Year Freight Matrices

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Catalog

Department for Transport catalog

Country of origin

United Kingdom

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English

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Dataset description

Modelled road freight vehicle movements for a base year of 2006, produced by the Base Year Freight Matrices (BYFM) study. Data consists of numbers of vehicles per average day between a set of origin-destination zone pairs. Vehicles are split into 3 categories: artics, rigids and vans. The zip file contains the data in csv format, metadata in an Excel spreadsheet and the BYFM study technical report.

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