“…From the perspective of city planning and management, these extracted freight trips can be used to analyze the economic linkages and freight interaction intensity between city areas, thus providing a reference for freight policy making (Le Pira et al, 2017;Wang and Yang, 2018). In addition, heavy truck trip data can be used to calculate freight traffic generation and attraction, which are the basic data in city freight transportation planning (Jiang et al, 2020;Wang et al, 2019;Zhao et al, 2020). From the perspective of corporate operations management, heavy truck trip data can be used to estimate freight costs (Perez-Martinez and Vassallo-Magro, 2013) and freight demand (Hassan et al, 2020), which are crucial for transportation cost control and truck scheduling.…”