Analysis of Freight Transport Strategies and Methodologies [summary]

Details

• Creators:
  Upchurch, Jeremy ; Ludlow, Donald
• Corporate Creators:
  Florida. Dept. of Transportation. Planning Office
• Corporate Contributors:
  CPCS Transcom, Inc.
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Best practices
  • Bottlenecks
  • Commodity flow
  • Data collection
  • Freight traffic
  • Impacts
  • Implementation
  • Methodology
  • Recommendations
  • Traffic flow
  More +
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States ; Florida
• Edition:
  Summary Report
• Corporate Publisher:
  Florida. Dept. of Transportation. Research Center
• Abstract:
  Transportation planners constantly examine traffic flows to see if current roadway layouts are serving traffic needs. For freight hauling, this presents one issue on the open road, but a much different issue as these large vehicles approach their destination - usually a loading dock - which can be difficult to access through urban streets. This creates what planners refer to as the “last mile” problem: the last segment of a delivery trip which may be the most complicated and time consuming part of the trip. Understanding the last mile problem is difficult because only a small portion of deliveries are tracked.
• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  BE277
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/35028/dot_35028_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 105.04 KB]
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:a4bb49207a1c16494ac7867d9840b6ef436ff57929e69e0325b3acb2673c5aef