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Significant gaps in knowledge often persist as to the quantity and diversity of products, their value, and supply chain characteristics of commodities moving on intrastate freight corridors. Available national level data may readily denote origin and final destination but does not easily identify the finer path, especially when movements are multimodal. These gaps constrain system managers’ ability to fully account for the costs and benefits of corridor investment and to positively affect multimodal connectivity. Constraints such as these ultimately impact the efficiency by which local and regional commerce operates by restricting the ability to identify appropriate multi-modal connections. This study establishes a consistent framework by which freight economic corridors may be conceptualized and evaluated on a level applicable to the state agency. Using the full extent of US-95 in Idaho, a watershed approach to corridor analysis is implemented through the assessment of the upstream and downstream connectivity of the corridor across modes. Resulting from this approach is an enhancement of capacity for managing agencies to better prioritize infrastructure investment under the guise of a complete supply chain corridor.

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee AT045 Standing Committee on Intermodal Freight Transport.

01618707

17-03566

English

17p

2017

Transportation Research Board 96th Annual Meeting

Digital/other

References; Tables

Case studies; Commodity flow; Evaluation and assessment; Freight traffic; Multimodal transportation; Regional transportation; Supply chain management; Transportation corridors

Idaho

Freight Transportation; Planning and Forecasting

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2017 Paper #17-03566

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Dec 8 2016 11:21AM