Developing Freight Performance Measures Using GPS Truck Data

Freight transportation planning is largely limited by the amount, quality, and detailed truck trip data. Most truck movement data are reported at the inter-county level and represented as aggregated tonnages that must be broken down into truck trips. Additionally, intra-county flows can be largely under-represented and commercially available commodity flow databases are prohibitively expensive. Surveying truck drivers (such as at truck stops or at terminal gates) and following trucks from terminals are time-consuming and require a great amount of labor to process the survey data. Truck trip traffic generated from these aforementioned sources relies on outdated and insufficient traffic generation data while truck trip generation and assignment models are seldom validated or calibrated. In this study, the authors present a case study of how global positioning system (GPS) truck data can be applied to determine a number of freight performance indicators. This research has the potential to address difficulties encountered by a number of state departments of transportation in effectively integrating freight transportation into the long-range transportation planning process.

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• Supplemental Notes:
  • This paper was sponsored by TRB committee AT015(3) Paper Reviews - Freight Planning & Behavior.
• Corporate Authors:

  Transportation Research Board

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• Authors:
  • Johnson, Zach
  • Psarros, Ioannis
  • Golias, Mihalis
  • Mishra, Sabyasachee
• Conference:
  • Transportation Research Board 93rd Annual Meeting
  • Location: Washington DC
  • Date: 2014-1-12 to 2014-1-16
• Date: 2014

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; Maps; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 14p
• Monograph Title: TRB 93rd Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Commodity flow; Freight traffic; Global Positioning System; Performance measurement; Traffic data; Traffic estimation; Trucks
• Subject Areas: Freight Transportation; Highways; Motor Carriers; Planning and Forecasting; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01516505
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: 14-4105
• Files: PRP, TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Feb 28 2014 1:32PM