Best Practices in Freight Planning

Freight planning is now a required part of transportation planning. State departments of transportation and metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs) are all struggling with how to include meaningful freight information in their transportation plans. In many cases, their efforts are frustrated by the lack of critical information on freight movements, the lack of control over major freight modes, or the lack of a model for how good freight planning should be done. This effort, which was sponsored by the Center for Freight and Infrastructure Research and Education (CFIRE) and the Mississippi Valley Freight Coalition (MVFC), is an attempt to provide some framework and ideas on how to begin freight planning. This guide was prepared after reviewing many state and MPO plans and after talking with many people who were involved in those plans. The ideas contained within are largely those of planners who have had some success in doing freight work. In some cases they draw on other research efforts. In still others, they are the product of the researchersʼ efforts to synthesize from a range of experiences.

• Record URL:
  • https://midamericafreight.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/FR_MVFC03_FR.pdf
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• Supplemental Notes:
  • This research was supported by the U.S. Department of Transportation, University Transportation Centers Program.
• Corporate Authors:

  National Center for Freight and Infrastructure Research and Education (CFIRE)

  University of Wisconsin, Madison
  1415 Engineering Drive, 2205 Engineering Hall
  Madison, WI  United States  53706

  Wisconsin Department of Transportation

  4802 Sheboygan Avenue, P.O. Box 7910
  Madison, WI  United States  53707-7910

  Research and Innovative Technology Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • Guo, Jessica Y
  • Wittwer, Ernie
• Publication Date: 2009-2

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Edition: Final Report
• Features: Figures; References;
• Pagination: 46p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Best practices; Freight transportation; Metropolitan planning organizations; State departments of transportation; Transportation planning
• Subject Areas: Freight Transportation; Planning and Forecasting; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01129958
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: MVFC 03
• Contract Numbers: TRG 3410745
• Files: UTC, TRIS, USDOT, STATEDOT
• Created Date: Jun 10 2009 4:49PM