Trucking in Georgia : freight performance measures.

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• Creators:
  Southworth, Frank ; Gillett, Jessica
• Corporate Creators:
  Georgia Transportation Institute
• Corporate Contributors:
  Georgia Department of Transportation ; United States. Department of Transportation. University Transportation Centers (UTC) Program
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Trucking
  • Freight transportation
  • Freight traffic
  • Freight service
  • Trucking
  • Freight transportation
  • Freight traffic
  • Freight service
• Publication/ Report Number:
  GDOT 10-16
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  Georgia
• Edition:
  Research report; 2010-2011.
• Corporate Publisher:
  Georgia. Dept. of Transportation
• Abstract:
  This report provides a review of the recent literature on the development of truck freight performance measures, ; and specifically measures that can assist the Georgia Department of Transportation in assessing, and in tracking ; from year to year, how well the state’s freight highways supports trucking movements within the state. ; An efficient trucking sector is essential to Georgia’s economic prosperity, while the recent and projected growth ; in long haul truck miles of travel is going to place a growing burden on the State’s highways, in terms of both ; pavement maintenance and repair costs, and congestion-induced traffic delays. Such delays can prove costly to ; the trucking companies themselves, as well as to the companies whose ship and also the customers who receive ; the goods they are carrying. Planning effectively for such trucking activity requires measurement and tracking ; of current and future system performance. Measuring transportation system performance on a periodic basis ; offers at two important benefits to planners and policy makers. First, it provides quantitative evidence of how ; well the system is performing and whether travel conditions have been improving or getting worse over time. ; Second, it offers useful benchmarks against which the success of the transportation planning process can be ; assessed, and possible re-directed where a particular trajectory needs adjustment. The performance measures ; reviewed in this report support a quantitative analysis of long-haul truck freight movements within the state, ; and are specifically meant for assessments of the performance of high volume truck freight highway ; (principally Interstate) corridors.
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• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/24388/dot_24388_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.36 MB]
• Collection(s):
  University Transportation Centers ; US Transportation Collection
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