Structural and geographic shifts in the Washington warehousing industry : transportation impacts for the Green River Valley.

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• Creators:
  Goodchild, Anne ; Andrioli, Derek
• Corporate Creators:
  Transportation Northwest Regional Center X (TransNow) (UTC)
• Corporate Contributors:
  University of Washington. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering ; United States. Department of Transportation. Office of the Secretary
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Warehouses
  • Trucking
  • Economic impacts
  • Social impacts Warehouses--Washington (State)--Management
  • Transportation--Washington (State)
  • Trucking--Washington (State)
• Publication/ Report Number:
  TNW2009-04
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  Washington
• Edition:
  Final research report.
• Corporate Publisher:
  Transportation Northwest (TransNow) UTC
• Abstract:
  Establishment level employment data indicate that the warehousing industry has experienced rapid growth and ; restructuring since 1998. This restructuring has resulted in geographic shifts at the national, regional, and local scales. ; Uneven growth in warehousing establishments across the Pacific Northwest has likely exerted a significant impact on ; the regional transportation system, but the extent of these transportation impacts remains unknown. Identifying these ; impacts is the goal of our proposed study. Recent and ongoing research indicates that growth in the warehousing ; industry is profound. County Business Patterns data published by the US Census Bureau indicates that at the national ; level, the number of warehousing establishments grew by just over 100 percent from 1998 to 2005. In 1998 there were ; 6,712 warehousing establishments in the US. By 2005, that number had increased to 13,483. Although a wide range ; exists within the warehousing industry, interview data collected by the authors of this proposal indicate that each ; warehouse handles between 25 and 100 trucks, or 50 and 200 trips, hence the location of warehousing establishments ; has a significant impact on transportation systems. At the county level, we see that in Washington, King County ; experienced the strongest absolute growth, adding 59 establishments to the 61 reported in 1998. In relative terms, ; however, Pierce County added warehousing establishments at a faster rate (159 percent) than any other county. The ; preliminary data produced in Goodchild and Andreoli's pending report clearly indicate that there has been strong ; growth in warehousing establishments at the national and state levels, but that the growth has not been even across ; states and counties. From a transportation perspective, these findings suggest that future research needs to focus on ; how these structural and geographic shifts impact regional and local transportation systems.
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• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  DTRS99-G-0010
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/17233/dot_17233_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 2.33 MB]
• Collection(s):
  University Transportation Centers ; US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
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