Microsimulating the spatial distribution of commercial vehicles by the location of their owned establishments

This paper presents a process for developing synthetic population to estimate the number of commercial vehicle owned at the business establishment level. The analysis also provides the basis to justify the use of zonal data of all the registered commercial vehicles within the study area from sources like Polk to study the spatial prevalence (or assignment) of such vehicles in a given census tract. The main concern is that some CVs that are …