The ability to accurately incorporate freight moving to and from a port into an urban model is difficult in both small and large cities.  To address this issue, this paper presents an application in which the Freight Analysis Framework Version 2.2 (FAF2) Port Data was incorporated into a traditional urban transportation planning model for a  Read more »

As one of the four original pilot studies into disaggregation of the Freight Analysis Framework Version 2 program funded by the Federal Highway Administration, the research team at the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAHuntsville) has experienced many of the issues and problems associated with the use of such a highly aggregated database.  The UAHuntsville  Read more »

It is commonly accepted in the transportation planning community that local data is the only legitimate data that can be used to forecast travel.  Therefore, large, highly aggregated data sets are often discredited and deemed an inappropriate data source without extensive consideration.  Additionally, since freight flow databases are generally large and highly aggregated, freight transportation  Read more »

This paper presents the use of simulation in evaluating the operations of the Mobile Container Terminal at Choctaw Point that is under construction at the Alabama State Docks in Mobile, Alabama. The purpose of the project is to establish a working model of the container operations to provide decision information for the management team at  Read more »