Analysis of Freight Transport Strategies and Methodologies

Details

• Creators:
  Sakhrani, Vivek ; Ludlow, Donald ; Oberhart, Eric
• Corporate Creators:
  CPCS Transcom, Inc.
• Corporate Contributors:
  Florida. Dept. of Transportation. Research Center
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Best practices
  • Bottlenecks
  • Commodity flow
  • Data collection
  • Freight traffic
  • Impacts
  • Implementation
  • Methodology
  • Recommendations
  • Traffic flow
  More +
• Publication/ Report Number:
  RFP-DOT-16/17-9005-JP ; CPCS Ref: 16482
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States ; Florida
• TRIS Online Accession Number:
  01656895
• Edition:
  Final Report (Oct 2017 - Jan 2018)
• Corporate Publisher:
  CPCS Transcom Inc.
• Abstract:
  Transportation agencies are often blind to freight flows at the “last mile” level of truck movements. New strategies, data sources, and analytics have the potential to provide an empirical understanding of last mile truck movements and their impacts, without relying on commercially sensitive private sector data. This research project identifies best practices and recommends strategies for improving last mile observability - the ability to understand how, when, where, and which types of trucks are moving goods. It provides a set of approaches that the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) and Florida’s metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs) can integrate into existing processes and implement in the near term, especially in the opportunity area of freight fluidity for the last mile. Detailed implementation procedures are offered for the three applications of Last Mile Flow Maps, Bottlenecks Analysis, and Travel Time Reliability Valuation.
• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  BE277
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/35027/dot_35027_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 10.62 MB]
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:ded6d237f7cb47d59da4a83250f211fc96f6f98a23c262f4589b8f6324df7103