Development of a Method to Forecast Freight Demand Arising from the Final Demand Sector and Examination of Federal Data to Analyze Transportation Demand for Local Area Through Trips

The research described in this report, Development Of A Method To Forecast Freight Demand Arising From The Final Demand Sector, describes a framework and a research approach to achieve insight into significant components of freight transportation in Alabama and the...

Development of a Freight Database for Use in Allocating Freight Traffic to Sub-State Traffic Zones

The use of national freight data at the local level is challenging due to the high level of aggregation and because freight data is proprietary.  Many national freight databases aggregate information to the individual states or major communities.  Most methods of...

Using a Federal Database and Local Industry Sector Knowledge to Develop Future Freight Forecasts

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...