by Karen | Jan 24, 2011 | Center & Office Research, Dr. Gregory A. Harris, P.E., Dr. Michael D. Anderson, P.E., Freight, Logistics, & Transportation, Jeff Thompson, Karen E. Yarbrough, Report, Transportation Research Board Annual Conference
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... by Karen | Oct 1, 2010 | Dr. Gregory A. Harris, P.E., Dr. Michael D. Anderson, P.E., Freight, Logistics, & Transportation, Jeff Thompson, Presentation, Presented, Transportation Research Board Annual Conference
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... by Emily Finney | Aug 25, 2010 | Jeff Thompson, Karen E. Yarbrough, Lynsey Delane, Strategic Management Services
The challenge in this effort was to gain an understanding of Alabama’s Aerospace Industry workforce expectations and how they may evolve over the next decade. This aerospace company perspective will provide the aerospace industry a better understanding of itself as... by Karen | Feb 1, 2010 | Center & Office Research, Dr. Gregory A. Harris, P.E., Dr. Michael D. Anderson, P.E., Freight, Logistics, & Transportation, Jeff Thompson, Karen E. Yarbrough, Presentation, Presented, Publication, Transportation Research Board Annual Conference
The use of local freight data in transportation planning is essential to ensure accuracy in the travel demand modeling process. However, unlike passenger transportation, where extensive research work has been performed into the collection and use of household travel... by Karen | Dec 1, 2009 | Center & Office Research, Dr. Bernard Schroer, Dr. Gregory A. Harris, P.E., Dr. Michael D. Anderson, P.E., Dr. Niles Schoening, Dr. Phillip A. Farrington, Dr. Wesley N. Colley, Freight, Logistics, & Transportation, Jeff Siniard, Jeff Thompson, Karen E. Yarbrough, Lauren Jennings Neppel, Lisa S. Blanchard, Nicholas Loyd, Report
This research built upon previous work on the development of tools to bridge the gaps in the analysis and understanding of the relationships between economic growth and transportation infrastructure in Alabama. The tasks performed under this contract included:... by Karen | Dec 1, 2008 | Center & Office Research, Dr. Bernard Schroer, Dr. Gregory A. Harris, P.E., Dr. Michael D. Anderson, P.E., Dr. Niles Schoening, Dr. Phillip A. Farrington, Freight, Logistics, & Transportation, George Rittenhouse, Jeff Siniard, Jeff Thompson, Karen E. Yarbrough, Lauren Jennings Neppel, Michael Spayd, Nicholas Loyd, Report
The 2008 research into Transportation Infrastructure in Alabama had two main focal points; 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...