Development of a Statewide Freight Trip Forecasting Model for Utah
Trucking is the primary source of goods movement in Utah. The Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT) commissioned the development of a statewide freight model to assist in statewide long-range planning and to better assess roadway impacts from trucks. A long-haul commodity-based model combined with a short-haul commercial vehicle model was developed and integrated with the Utah Statewide Travel Model (USTM), which forecasts passenger travel for the state. This paper includes a discussion of the source data used in the freight model development and long-haul and short-haul forecasting methods and calibration results. This paper also discusses data needs and how alternate sources of data were used to overcome initial data deficiencies. Moreover, lessons learned to assist other regions seeking to develop freight demand modeling approaches are discussed.
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Supplemental Notes:
- This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ADB50 Transportation Planning Applications.
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Authors:
- Shabani, Kaveh
- Worthen, Chad
- Outwater, Maren
- Steinvorth, Walt
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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; References; Tables;
- Pagination: 15p
- Monograph Title: TRB 93rd Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Commercial vehicles; Commodity flow; Data collection; Freight traffic; Travel demand; Trip generation; Trucking
- Geographic Terms: Utah
- Subject Areas: Freight Transportation; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01516357
- Record Type: Publication
- Report/Paper Numbers: 14-3859
- Files: PRP, TRIS, TRB, ATRI
- Created Date: Feb 28 2014 1:32PM