The Practical Corridor Supply Chain: A Multi-Modal Case Study Assessment
Significant gaps in knowledge often persist as to the quantity and diversity of products, their value, and supply chain characteristics of commodities moving on intrastate freight corridors. Available national level data may readily denote origin and final destination but does not easily identify the finer path, especially when movements are multimodal. These gaps constrain system managers’ ability to fully account for the costs and benefits of corridor investment and to positively affect multimodal connectivity. Constraints such as these ultimately impact the efficiency by which local and regional commerce operates by restricting the ability to identify appropriate multi-modal connections. This study establishes a consistent framework by which freight economic corridors may be conceptualized and evaluated on a level applicable to the state agency. Using the full extent of US-95 in Idaho, a watershed approach to corridor analysis is implemented through the assessment of the upstream and downstream connectivity of the corridor across modes. Resulting from this approach is an enhancement of capacity for managing agencies to better prioritize infrastructure investment under the guise of a complete supply chain corridor.
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Supplemental Notes:
- This paper was sponsored by TRB committee AT045 Standing Committee on Intermodal Freight Transport.
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Corporate Authors:
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Authors:
- Sage, Jeremy
- Casavant, Ken
- Zhou, You
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Conference:
- Transportation Research Board 96th Annual Meeting
- Location: Washington DC, United States
- Date: 2017-1-8 to 2017-1-12
- Date: 2017
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: Digital/other
- Features: References; Tables;
- Pagination: 17p
- Monograph Title: TRB 96th Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Case studies; Commodity flow; Evaluation and assessment; Freight traffic; Multimodal transportation; Regional transportation; Supply chain management; Transportation corridors
- Geographic Terms: Idaho
- Subject Areas: Freight Transportation; Planning and Forecasting;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01627892
- Record Type: Publication
- Report/Paper Numbers: 17-03566
- Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
- Created Date: Feb 28 2017 1:55PM