Urban Freight Transportation Mobility Index for Niterói City Center

A mobility index for urban freight transportation (UFT) developed through a literature review and multicriteria decision aid method. The index was applied to the city center of Niterói/RJ, Brazil, indicating a poor mobility level for freight in that area. The dataset is associated with an open-access paper authored by Cynthia Vargas Cuchava Rocha.

Use Cases

• Assess urban freight mobility levels based on the proposed composite index.
• Benchmark city areas for freight transportation performance based on aggregated indicators.
• Support policy decisions for mitigating freight transportation externalities based on identified actions.
• Apply multicriteria decision aid methods to weight indicators for transportation indices.

Strengths

• Index is based on a literature review identifying key government actions for mitigating freight externalities.
• Indicator weights were defined using a formal multicriteria decision aid method.
• Includes a concrete application case in Niterói/RJ, Brazil.

Limitations

• Row count and dataset scale are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

Cynthia Vargas Cuchava Rocha

Collection Method

Derived from a literature review and application of a multicriteria decision aid method.

Geography

City center of Niterói/RJ, Brazil