Truck freight commodity flows : US 395 North of Spokane Washington,

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• Creators:
  Sage, Jeremy ; Casavant, Ken
• Corporate Creators:
  Washington State University. Freight Policy Transportation Institute
• Corporate Contributors:
  United States. Federal Highway Administration
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Freight traffic
  • Trucking
  • Commodity flow
  • Surveys
  • Highway corridors
  • Traffic congestion
  • Bottlenecks
  • Traffic volume
  • Truck traffic
• Publication/ Report Number:
  WA-RD 836.1
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  Washington
• Corporate Publisher:
  Washington (State). Dept. of Transportation. Research Office
• Abstract:
  The search for understanding of commodity flows throughout the nation and the State of ; Washington is a continual process. This understanding is critical at many levels of the ; transportation industry and to those firms and entities that provide that transportation, or ; regulate and invest in the needed infrastructure. These data, usually desired at the sub national ; level, are essential to adequate planning by state, regional and local levels as attempts continue ; to improve the efficiency, effectiveness and sustainability of the transportation system. State ; and national travel models require those data, often on a seasonal, commodity/industrial, ; directional, modal, etc. basis. Determining the importance of a commodity flow on a corridor ; level leads to the correct prioritization of investments in infrastructure as well as increasing the ; ability to determine quantitative impacts of congestion, regulation and bottlenecks on a ; transportation system or supply chain. ; Using the FPTI (Freight Policy Transportation Institute) developed Intercept Survey ; Methodology, the research team conducted a series of seasonal truck surveys at three locations ; on the US 395 corridor between Deer Park and the Canadian Border. Survey results aid in the ; identification of not only volume and commodity movements in the region, but also bottlenecks ; and troubled locations identified by the survey respondents.
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• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  Agreement T4120, Task 35
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/28160/dot_28160_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 2.51 MB]
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:891287eb5060c963ff9d55ed5c514001afca8aed0ee69c3dedf1c931ff9863a5