Managing the Impacts of Freight in California [Policy Research]

Details

• Creators:
  Giuliano, Genevieve ; Showalter, Catherine ; Yuan, Quan ; Zhang, Rui
• Corporate Creators:
  National Center for Sustainable Transportation (NCST) ; METRANS Transportation Center (Calif.) ; University of Southern California
• Corporate Contributors:
  United States. Department of Transportation. University Transportation Centers (UTC) Program ; United States. Department of Transportation. Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Bottlenecks
  • Data analysis
  • Freight terminals
  • Freight trains
  • Freight transportation
  • Traffic congestion
  • Traffic data
  • Traffic delays
• Resource Type:
  Brief
• Geographical Coverage:
  California;United States
• Edition:
  Policy Brief
• Corporate Publisher:
  National Center for Sustainable Transportation (NCST) (UTC)
• Abstract:
  This research was motivated by new provisions in the 2016 Fixing America’s Surface Transportation (FAST) Act, which require states to consider the impact of significant freight congestion or delays on the broader transportation system. However, conventional methods of evaluating freight congestion, such as identifying freight bottlenecks, focus on how these bottlenecks affect freight transport. This research provides a statewide assessment of freight movement on all traffic congestion. It defines freight impact areas as severely congested roadway corridors with high volumes of trucks.
• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/66960/dot_66960_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 4.50 MB]
• Collection(s):
  University Transportation Centers
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:4bd49f119683c1ec8120b58711cbd49428eeeeaa7b1a98786d4a5de27e42b3c9a333f0efddf7f152ad329082690f3ab4f1d25095cad69d0ae07c09f706cbd2d3