Transportation Databases and Their Use in Transportation and Marketing Analysis

The development and use of transportation databases is an essential prerequisite to transportation and marketing analysis. In few other disciplines are the databases so scattered and uncoordinated as in the field of transportation. Yet, there are few disciplines which are so data-dependent, particularly given the enormous changes which are occurring in the system and the counter-vailing claims made by industry, government, and the shipping public. This paper presents an overview of the transportation databases which are available, what they contain, and how they might be used in conjunction with each other to draw a more complete picture of transportation issues and changes. The paper is designed to provide transportation and marketing analysts with a synopsis of data sources, and to illustrate the manner in which these might be used.

• Record URL:
  https://www.ugpti.org/resources/reports/details.php?id=38
• Record URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/60568
• Corporate Authors:

  Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute

  North Dakota State University
  1320 Albrecht Boulevard
  Fargo, ND  United States  581052
• Authors:
  • Tolliver, Denver D
• Publication Date: 1982-12

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Tables;
• Pagination: 13p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Databases; Economics; Freight service; Market assessment; Railroad transportation; Trade; Trucking; Water transportation
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Economics; Freight Transportation;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01832298
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: UGPTI Staff Paper No. 35, SP-35
• Files: NTL, TRIS
• Created Date: Jan 5 2022 6:11PM