TRENDS IN STATEWIDE FREIGHT PLANNING

The issues that predominate freight transportation are project-, corridor-, or commodity-specific rather than broad and generalized. Statewide, multimodal, comprehensive freight planning, it is considered, will continue to be undertaken, but mostly in terms of providing background strategies. This article considers the recurring issues of the 1980's: continued abandonments of light density lines; highway maintenance needs accentuated by longer, heavier trucks; increased truck traffic; provisions of new rail-highway and highway-port connections to improve access between modes; charges in waterway use; and need to ensure that no economic sector or area will be seriously disadvantaged through changes in the type and the cost of services offered. The most common types of projects undertaken by state transportation agencies are proposed branch line abandonments, corridor studies, and commodity studies. National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) research efforts to improve the quality of state freight planning are discussed. The use of costing or accounting models in state freight planning is also discussed.

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• Authors:
  • Memmott, F W
  • Creighton, R L
• Publication Date: 1984-5

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; Photos;
• Pagination: p. 24-27
• Serial:
  • TR News
  • Issue Number: 112
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0738-6826
  • Serial URL: https://doi.org/10.17226/895

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Abandonment; Commodities; Freight transportation; Highway maintenance; Mathematical models; Multimodal transportation; Project management; State departments of transportation; State government; Transportation corridors; Transportation planning; Trucks; Water transportation
• Uncontrolled Terms: Models; Projects
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Freight Transportation; Highways; Marine Transportation; Motor Carriers; Planning and Forecasting; Society; Terminals and Facilities; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00387334
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS, TRB
• Created Date: Sep 28 1984 12:00AM