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How freight moves: estimating milage and routes using an innovative GIS tool
  • Published Date:
    2007-06-01
  • Language:
    English
Filetype[PDF-408.90 KB]


Details:
  • Creators:
  • Corporate Contributors:
    United States. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
  • Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Publication/ Report Number:
    TR-001
  • DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.21949/1501504
  • Resource Type:
    Research Paper
  • Corporate Publisher:
    United States. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
  • Abstract:
    The Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) has developed an innovative software tool, called GeoMiler, that is helping researchers better estimate freight travel. GeoMiler is being used to compute mileages along likely routes for the nearly 6 million freight shipments expected to be reported in the 2007 Commodity Flow Survey (CFS), the nation's largest survey of freight movements. These computations are used in estimating modal ton-miles of freight —a key measure for understanding the use and performance of our nation's freight transportation system. BTS, part of the Research and Innovative Technology Administration (RITA) of the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT), developed GeoMiler using current Geographic Information System (GIS) technology to assign routes and calculate mileage from the true origin to the true destination of each freight shipment even when more than one freight mode is used. While developed for use in the CFS, the tool's integration of core GIS technology and its modeling approach can be used for any multimodal freight movement at all geographic levels.
  • Format:
    PDF
  • Collection(s):
    BTS Products
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  • Supporting Files:
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    1. Commodity Flow Survey 2007 [supporting datasets]
      Published Date:
      2010-04-01
      Abstract:
      The 2007 Commodity Flow Survey (CFS) is undertaken through a partnership between the U.S. Census Bureau, U.S. Department of Commerce and the Research and Innovative Technology Administration (RITA), Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS), U.S. Dep...
      File Type:
      Filetype[PDF - 143.57 KB]
    2. 2007 Commodity Flow Survey: State Summaries
      Published Date:
      2010-12-01
      Abstract:
      The Commodity Flow Survey (CFS) is conducted as part of the Census Bureau’s Economic Census, occurring every 5 years. It is the primary source of national and State-level data on domestic freight shipments in the United States. The survey sampled a...
      File Type:
      Filetype[PDF - 4.21 MB]
    3. U.S. Freight on the Move: Highlights from the 2007 Commodity Flow Survey Preliminary Data
      Published Date:
      2009-09-01
      Abstract:
      More than 13 billion tons of freight, valued at $11.8 trillion, were transported nearly 3.5 trillion ton-miles in the United States during 2007, according to preliminary estimates from the 2007 Commodity Flow Survey (CFS). The 2007 CFS data and resul...
      File Type:
      Filetype[PDF - 133.86 KB]
    4. United States: 2007: 2007 Economic Census: Transportation: 2007 Commodity Flow Survey
      Published Date:
      2010-04-01
      Abstract:
      The 2007 Commodity Flow Survey (CFS) is undertaken through a partnership between the U.S. Census Bureau, U.S. Department of Commerce and the Research and Innovative Technology Administration (RITA), Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS), U.S. Dep...
      File Type:
      Filetype[PDF - 10.59 MB]
    5. United States: 2007: Hazardous Materials: 2007 Economic Census: Transportation: 2007 Commodity Flow Survey
      Published Date:
      2010-07-01
      Abstract:
      As part of the shipment characteristics collected in the 2007 CFS, we asked respondents to provide the four-digit United Nations (UN) or North American (NA) identification number. For the 2007 CFS data we used the UN/NA code to: (1) identify the ship...
      File Type:
      Filetype[PDF - 5.99 MB]
    6. United States: 2007: Exports: 2007 Economic Census: Transportation: 2007 Commodity Flow Survey
      Published Date:
      2010-08-01
      Abstract:
      For the purposes of this report, an export is considered a shipment from any of the 50 states and the District of Columbia to a foreign country. Shipments to U.S. possessions and territories are also treated as exports. We asked the respondent to rep...
      File Type:
      Filetype[PDF - 6.27 MB]
    7. Hazardous Materials Highlights: 2007 Commodity Flow Survey
      Published Date:
      2011-01-01
      Abstract:
      Hazardous materials movement through the Nation’s transportation network in 2007 remained relatively unchanged from 2002 measures, according to data from the 2007 Commodity Flow Survey (CFS), released in 2010. The estimated 2.2 billion tons of haza...
      File Type:
      Filetype[PDF - 299.19 KB]
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