The 2007 – 2008 research into Transportation Infrastructure in Alabama had two main focal points and many meaningful findings. The two main focal points were the creation of the Freight Planning Framework, with particular emphasis on the disaggregation and use of national level freight data at the state and local level, and the refinement and continued development of the Alabama Transportation Infrastructure Model (ATIM) for analysis and communication of transportation infrastructure issues. Additional findings of significant interest were insights into freight planning and modeling of operations at ports of entry. Following are the highlights of the research, including the embodiment of the Freight Planning Framework, the development of freight planning factors and Freight Analysis Zonal disaggregation techniques, and the advancement of the ATIM (including a transition to a Java-based platform) and other discrete event simulations of freight movement and processes.
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Bridging Data Information Gap