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:
  Freight Service Freight Traffic Freight Transportation Trucking
• 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.
  
  
• Format:
  PDF
• Collection(s):
  University Transportation Centers US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:707457053b431a8f73ec64b617bdf7dc7c17a40154cab2961c3ddad28710c6bd
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/24388/dot_24388_DS1.pdf
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