Using FAF2 Port Data to Model Freight in a Medium Sized Port City

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...

Issues and Approaches to the Utilization of Highly Aggregated Databases in Freight Planning and Modeling

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...

Developing Validated Freight Transportation Models Utilizing Highly Aggregated Data

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...

Using Simulation to Evaluate and Improve the Operations of a Seaport Container Terminal

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...