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Structural and geographic shifts in the Washington warehousing industry : transportation impacts for the Green River Valley.
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2009-07-01
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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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