Measurement of Travel Time in Freight-Significant Corridors: Phase Two

Over 9 billion tons of freight is currently shipped by truck each year in the United States and it is estimated that truck shipments will grow at an average rate of 2.6% annually between 2004 and 20151. The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) has a role to ensure the nation’s transportation system is capable of managing this growth by guiding investment decisions, and by developing and implementing strategies that promote efficiency in goods movement. In 2002, FHWA, in partnership with the American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI), started a Freight Performance Measurement (FPM) initiative to determine whether and how information derived from communications technologies used by the freight industry can provide FHWA with data to support the measurement of freight performance on the surface transportation system. The initial two phases of work focused on measuring travel time in freight-significant corridors. During these phases, the research team developed data collection and analysis techniques that enabled them to successfully use satellite data from trucks traveling on five freight-significant corridors to calculate travel rates and to derive measures of travel time and reliability. This paper provides additional details on methods, findings and recommendations from the FPM research.

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• Authors:
  • Jones, Crystal
  • Murray, Daniel
  • Short, Jeffrey
• Conference:
  • 12th World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems
  • Location: San Francisco California, United States
  • Date: 2005-11-6 to 2005-11-10
• Publication Date: 2005

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Appendices; CD-ROM; Figures; References;
• Pagination: 20p
• Monograph Title: Proceedings of the 12th World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Communication systems; Freight traffic measurement; Freight transportation; Geographic information systems; Global Positioning System; Performance; Reliability; Transportation planning; Travel time; Truck traffic
• Identifier Terms: American Transportation Research Institute
• Subject Areas: Freight Transportation; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01016213
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jan 13 2006 11:35AM