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Title: Fueling Freight Movement: Emerging Technologies Help Clarify South Florida’s Regional Petroleum Supply Chain: Freight Demand Modeling and Data Improvement Implementation Support
Accession Number: 01683776
Record Type: Monograph
Abstract: Florida Department of Transportation’s (FDOT) District 4 wanted a better understanding of the supply and logistics chain for petroleum-based products from the point at which they are processed at Port Everglades to their distribution across the 12 counties of South Florida. Using emerging technologies for automated vehicle recognition as well as conventional data sources, an FDOT District 4 team developed a project to document petroleum shipments in the region. A literature review and evaluation led the project team to select two technologies able to identify and classify fuel tanker truck and tanker rail cars for testing in real-world conditions: license plate recognition and video image processing. The team also collected and approximated petroleum shipments through the region using Florida Department of Revenue tax records, Global Positioning System (GPS) truck probe data, driver surveys, and other sources. The methodology developed in this project will allow transportation planners to use conventional transportation data to better inform tanker truck route choice behaviors and forecast freight demand, both critical components in developing a behavior-based freight model. Data collected during this project can also support infrastructure investment and assist emergency management and transportation agencies in managing the transportation system in significant weather events. Ultimately, findings from this project showed that at the current time, large scale use of license plate recognition and video image technology for automated data collection on fuel tanker trucks and tanker rail cars is limited; though, it is possible to successfully capture and process the required data through those two technologies in smaller-scale applications.
Report/Paper Numbers: FHWA-HOP-16-095
Language: English
Corporate Authors: Florida Department of Transportation 605 Suwannee Street Federal Highway Administration Office of Operations Strategic Highway Research Program 2 Transportation Research Board Pagination: 20p
Publication Date: 2017-8
Media Type: Digital/other
Features: Figures; Maps; Photos; References; Tables
TRT Terms: Identifier Terms: Geographic Terms: Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Freight Transportation; Planning and Forecasting
Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI, USDOT, STATEDOT
Created Date: Oct 1 2018 11:22AM
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