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...

A Methodology to Use FAF2 Data to Forecast External-External Trips

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...