Establishing Freight Corridors

The New Mexico Department of Transportation (NM DOT) Research Bureau requested that the University of New Mexico ATR Institute (ATRI) assist them in research which would identify the factors for establishing freight corridors for rail and truck across New Mexico; gain an understanding of multimodal planning for the freight industry, including freight patterns; and to anticipate and best utilize existing freight infrastructure. The research would provide recommendations to integrate design, planning, and maintenance to meet freight projections and future freight operations. The freight corridor concept would include NM DOT utilization of freight projections within the design plans, utilization plans, and maintenance projections. The research would look at a concept for monitoring freight corridors with consideration for public safety and provide a brief benefit analysis for multimodal freight corridors from other state studies. This report includes the introduction, background and literature review for this project, as well as five state case studies of freight corridor development, five state case studies application to New Mexico, and recommendations.

• Record URL:
  • http://dot.state.nm.us/content/dam/nmdot/Research/NM04MMT03EstablishingFreightCorridors2007.pdf
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• Corporate Authors:

  University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

  Alliance for Transportation Research Institute
  801 University Boulevard SE, Suite 302
  Albuquerque, NM  United States  87106

  New Mexico Department of Transportation

  Research Bureau, 7500B Pan American Freeway, P.O. Box 94690
  Albuquerque, NM  United States  87199-4690

  Federal Highway Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Publication Date: 2007-6

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Edition: Final Report
• Features: Appendices; Bibliography; Figures; Tables;
• Pagination: 179p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Case studies; Freight transportation; Literature reviews; Monitoring; Multimodal transportation; Railroad transportation; Recommendations; Safety; Trucking
• Uncontrolled Terms: Freight corridors; Transportation infrastructure
• Geographic Terms: New Mexico
• Subject Areas: Freight Transportation; Highways; Motor Carriers; Planning and Forecasting; Railroads; Research; Safety and Human Factors; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01089502
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: NM04MMT-03
• Contract Numbers: CO 4616
• Files: TRIS, USDOT, STATEDOT
• Created Date: Feb 28 2008 7:07PM