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:
  Economic Impacts Social Impacts Warehouses--Washington (State)--Management Transportation--Washington (State) Trucking Trucking--Washington (State) Warehouses
• 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.
  
  
• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  DTRS99-G-0010
• Collection(s):
  University Transportation Centers US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
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