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The era in which transportation professionals could merely conduct analyses of truck traffic volumes, their associated impacts, and routing strategies no longer exists. A much broader and interactive transportation system management approach must be employed, along with innovative analytical procedures and carefully considered recommendations to be compatible with unique situations in each area. Documentation of a recent study of this type that was conducted in Nashville, Tennessee, is presented. This research used visual overlay techniques, sensitivity analyses by computer modeling, and some sketch planning methods to investigate several system alternatives. From these and other analyses, a wide range of innovative recommendations was suggested. This departure from traditional thinking to meeting today's problems innovatively resulted in findings, conclusions, and recommendations that should assist other analysts faced with similar challenges. Increased use of the news media, using nonuniform traffic signs, using available traffic volume data as a surrogate for unavailable origin-destination data, reformatting existing data to increase their utility, studying the evolution of truck terminal operations, and presenting a noise prediction model that local planners can understand and use at public meetings are examples of the innovations presented.

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Forecasting; Public participation; Routing; Sensitivity analysis; Simulation; Sound level; Transportation planning; Transportation system management; Truck routes; Urban transportation

Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Society; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

TRIS, TRB

Sep 30 1986 12:00AM

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