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Edition:Final Research Report
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Abstract:The Mississippi Department of Transportation [1] strives to facilitate a safe and efficient movement of freight within the state due to the growing need to understand what is causing congestion [2] and improve safety measures. The scope of this project is to develop a multimodal freight transportation analysis model for Mississippi for assessing the demand for transportation facilities and services. This research will enable policymakers, transportation planners, and logistic analysts in various federal, state, and local agencies to assess the demand for transportation facilities and services, energy use, safety, risks, and environmental concerns. Implementation of state-level strategies that support efficient freight movement is therefore essential not only for attracting new industries to move freight into and out of the state, but also for addressing the needs of existing state businesses. This work provides an analysis model on shipments to and from Mississippi. We use origins and destinations of shipments and their business addresses (zip code to zip code) to calculate route path, mileage, and total travel time. PC*MILER [3] and ArcGIS [4] are used to calculate routed and geodesics distances. This will generate a huge amount of routing records which will be filtered out to determine the optimal routing record for each shipment. Only business address data from the states of Mississippi and California are collected to calculate routed distance information.
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