Metro Model: Innovative Data Sources Inform Truck Tour Framework for Dynamic Portland Region: Freight Demand Modeling and Data Improvement Implementation Support

Located in the Pacific Northwest, Metro serves as Portland, Oregon’s metropolitan planning organization (MPO). The agency has spent thousands of staff hours in truck model maintenance, updates, and applications over the past 20 years. As it was completing commodity flow forecasts for 2014, the MPO became increasingly interested in improving freight demand modeling capabilities. At the time, research sponsored by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) and led by the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning had produced and implemented an advanced freight behavior-based model in the Chicago region. Metro applied for and was awarded second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP2) C20 implementation assistance to build from this model. In addition, Metro was able to secure additional local funding to design and conduct an establishment survey to collect behavioral freight data for the region. Major project objectives included developing a model that would: (1) Help stakeholders evaluate regional economic policies; (2) Depict a broad range of responses to network conditions and costs; (3) Depict both truck volumes (by vehicle type) and flow of goods (by commodity type) on the network; and (4) Include freight trucks as well as service and parcel trucks. An overview of the model and new model components developed for this project is shown in this document.

• Record URL:
  https://ops.fhwa.dot.gov/publications/fhwahop18023/fhwahop18023.pdf
• Summary URL:
  https://ops.fhwa.dot.gov/publications/fhwahop18024/fhwahop18024.pdf
• Record URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/38451
• Record URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/38452
• Corporate Authors:

  Metro

  600 NE Grand Ave.
  Portland, OR  United States  97232-2736

  Federal Highway Administration

  Office of Freight Management and Operations, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590

  Strategic Highway Research Program 2

  Transportation Research Board
  500 Fifth Street, NW
  Washington, DC    20001
• Publication Date: 2017-12

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; Tables;
• Pagination: 16p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Commodity flow; Freight traffic; Metropolitan planning organizations; Regional analysis; Travel demand; Truck traffic
• Identifier Terms: Metro (Portland, Oregon); Strategic Highway Research Program 2
• Geographic Terms: Portland (Oregon)
• Subject Areas: Freight Transportation; Motor Carriers; Planning and Forecasting;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01683771
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: FHWA-HOP-18-023
• Files: NTL, TRIS, TRB, ATRI, USDOT
• Created Date: Oct 22 2018 9:18AM