Adapting Freight Models and Traditional Freight Data Programs for Performance Measurement. Summary of a Workshop

The Transportation Research Board (TRB), in collaboration with the Federal Highway Administration’s Office of Freight Management and Operations, hosted the Adapting Freight Models and Traditional Freight Data Programs for Performance Measurement Workshop to consider the adequacy of freight data and modeling to support performance measurement in public- and private-sector decision making. The workshop had four objectives: (a) identify the data and models necessary for estimating key performance measures of freight system condition, efficiency, and safety and the economic and environmental impacts that support public and private decision making; (b) consider the adequacy of existing data programs and models, including the Freight Analysis Framework, for meeting performance measurement needs; (c) define critical gaps in data programs and modeling tools and identify essential actions needed to close them; and (d) explore a focused research framework, with supporting research needs statements, that could lead to improvements in data and models for estimating freight transportation performance measures. To accomplish these objectives, the workshop included general sessions, breakout sessions, and an electronic poster session. Speakers in the general sessions provided public- and private-sector perspectives on freight performance measures, data needs, and opportunities and challenges. The freight-related elements of Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act (MAP-21) were also highlighted. The breakout sessions focused on defining needs and opportunities to adapt freight data and models to support performance measurement and identifying research needs. This document presents the proceedings of the workshop. The major topics addressed in the general sessions and the breakout sessions are presented in these proceedings. A list of attendees is provided at the end of this document. The abstracts prepared by the authors of the electronic posters are provided in the appendix.

• Record URL:
  http://www.trb.org/Publications/Blurbs/169692.aspx
• 
• Conference:
  • Adapting Freight Models and Traditional Freight Data Programs for Performance Measurement Workshop
  • Location: Washington D.C.
  • Date: 2013-4-30 to 2013-5-1
• Publication Date: 2013

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: Appendices; Figures;
• Pagination: 70p
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Board Conference Proceedings on the Web
  • Issue Number: 12
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
• Publication flags:

  Open Access (libre)

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Data collection; Data files; Decision making; Freight traffic; Performance measurement; Travel demand; Workshops
• Uncontrolled Terms: Freight data
• Subject Areas: Freight Transportation; Planning and Forecasting; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01497993
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Nov 15 2013 3:26PM