Developing and applying mobility performance measures for freight transportation in urban areas.

Details

• Creators:
  Winterich, David ; Eisele, William L. ; Villa, Juan ; Schrank, David L.
• Corporate Creators:
  Texas Transportation Institute
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Freight transportation
  • Performance measurement
  • Traffic congestion
  • Urban transportation
  • Freight and freightage
  • Traffic congestion
  • City traffic
• Publication/ Report Number:
  SWUTC/09/476660-00014-1
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  Texas
• Edition:
  Final report; $b Sept. 2008-Sept. 2009.
• Corporate Publisher:
  Southwest Region University Transportation Center (U.S.)
• Abstract:
  This report summarizes the activities performed in a one-year study with the objective to develop an ; understanding of the interrelationships of urban goods movement and congestion and identify performance ; measures that will help evaluate the impact of goods movement in the urban area. Through a survey instrument ; and state-of-the-practice review, this research project investigated the impacts and interactions of commodity ; movements within an urban area, given traffic congestion. ; Researchers generally found that traditional mobility monitoring performance measures (e.g., delay, travel time ; index) can be adopted for freight-related mobility performance measurement. From the surveys conducted, and ; the state-of-the-practice review, researchers also found that 1) recurring congestion (and most typical incident ; congestion) is a problem that carriers/shippers can plan for, and in most cases, they can deal with congestion as ; it comes along; and 2) carriers/shippers tend to estimate a time cushion (buffer) into their schedules to meet ; their delivery times. There are times when urban congestion levels can impact freight operations (e.g., just-intime ; JIT deliveries for manufacturing, less-than-truckload LTL trips by truck). Researchers also documented ; the interrelationship of how decisions by either the public sector or the trucking companies can influence one ; another. ; The results of this research will be valuable to decision-making staff at metropolitan planning organizations ; (MPOs) and local transportation organizations to understand the big picture of local truck movements, as well ; as performance measures that will assist public transportation agency staff in considering freight movements ; and impacts in project prioritization and selection.
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• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  DTRT07-G-0006
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/17810/dot_17810_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.91 MB]
• Collection(s):
  University Transportation Centers ; US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:730b7e5feb3465ec9552ecb960eea0c937e6d5065139785fee2c87dcc4c03225