challenges facing express delivery services in canada's urban centres

Institute of Housing & Mobility
Challenges facing the EDS industry in Canada's urban centres
Overlaying parking tickets with delivery data
The project team obtained parking ticket data from the City of Toronto to determine the high
concentration zones for parking tickets in Toronto during 2008. We obtained data for all
addresses or locations where the ticketing authorities issued in excess of 1,000 tickets. The
parking ticket data were geo-coded before being analyzed using GIS. Figure 33 presents the
spatial distribution of the parking tickets, overlaid with the spatial distribution of the courier
deliveries in the downtown area for December 2007. The pink dots are scaled to represent the
number of parking tickets issued. It could be seen from Figure 33 that there is a strong overlap
between the high volume of deliveries and multiple locations where more than 1,000 parking
tickets were issued in the area bounded by Bay Street to the east, York Street to the West, Front
Street to the south and Queen Street to the north.
Yonge and King
Market_Dec_Pkgs
999 and below (31)
1000 to 1999 (13)
2000 to 3999 (8)
4000 to 7999 (4)
8000 and above (2)
Num_Tickets
10000 5000 2500
0 .5 1 1.5
Kilometers
FIGURE 33: OVERLAYING PARKING TICKET DATA WITH DELIVERY DATA
Since the delivery data were obtained for a week in four different months, the project team also
estimated daily differences in delivery patterns. It appears that the delivery activity usually picks
up over the course of a week where Monday represents lower volume than other days of the
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