In smaller urban areas, freight transportation is often not explicitly modeled, but is included implicitly as a percentage of non-home-based trips, which has nothing to do with the actual behavior of freight. This incorporation has the potential to develop future traffic forecasts that are unreasonable and potentially will lead to poor roadway infrastructure investment decisions.  Read more »

Simulating freight activity in a statewide model requires the development of an origin/destination matrix containing internal-internal trips, internal-external and external-internal trips, and external-external trips.  The external-external trips are often difficult to obtain as data for these trips cannot be surveyed through traditional travel surveying techniques.  This paper presents a methodology to use the Freight Analysis  Read more »