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https://doi.org/10.3141/1625-20

http://scholar.google.com...cock&publication_year=1998

Goods movement is an important aspect of the transportation system. Freight flow, complemented with the much-researched passenger movement, provides a way for understanding the complete vehicle flow scenario on the highways. Commodity movement prediction has not received much attention because of the lack of sufficient and easily accessible data sources. Most data sources give aggregated commodity movements and, because of the heterogeneity of freight, accurate predictions of truck flows have not been possible. A methodology for calculating the truck flows on the various highways in Massachusetts from interstate commodity flow data is presented. Freight tons originating and ending in Massachusetts have been converted to truck numbers by using a quantitative procedure and distributed to different areas in the state by using employment as an economic indicator variable. The truck flow is assigned to the important highways and validated against existing survey counts. On comparison, a large percentage of the roads show the estimated truck counts are within a tolerable error margin. The research also showd that statewide analyses need to be refined near urban areas because of a variety of complexities involved.

This paper appears in Transportation Research Record No. 1625, Progress in Transportation Data 1998.

English

p. 156-164

1998

Transportation Research Record

0309064708

Figures (7) ; References (11) ; Tables (1)

Commodity flow; Forecasting; Freight traffic; Geographic information systems; Information, data, and knowledge; Physical distribution; Trucking

Data needs

Massachusetts

Data and Information Technology; Freight Transportation; Highways; Motor Carriers; Planning and Forecasting; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Nov 6 1998 12:00AM

• APPLICATION OF GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY IN FREIGHT DATA ANALYSIS: CASE STUDY OF I-90/I-94 CORRIDOR ANALYSIS
• CHOOSING A HOUSEHOLD SURVEY METHOD: RESULTS OF DALLAS-FORT WORTH PRETEST
• CONSTRUCTION OF DAYTIME ACTIVITY PROFILES FROM HOUSEHOLD TRAVEL SURVEY DATA
• DATA RECONCILIATION-BASED TRAFFIC COUNT ANALYSIS SYSTEM
• DESIGN OF AUTOMATIC COMPREHENSIVE TRAFFIC DATA MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR PENNSYLVANIA
• DEVELOPING DATABASE OF NATIONWIDE FREIGHT FLOWS FOR AUSTRALIA
• DEVELOPMENT OF INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM DATA MANAGEMENT
• DEVELOPMENT OF TRIP PRODUCTION RATES FOR SYNTHESIZED HOUSEHOLDS
• EXPERIMENTAL APPLICATION OF GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM TO LOCATE MOTOR VEHICLE CRASHES: IMPACT ON TIME AND ACCURACY
• GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM USE FOR HYDROLOGIC DATA DEVELOPMENT FOR DESIGN OF HIGHWAY DRAINAGE FACILITIES
• GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITE COVERAGE FOR SURFACE APPLICATIONS OF DIFFERENTIAL GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM
• METAANALYSIS OF TRAVEL SURVEY METHODS
• OBTAINING TRAVEL INTENSITY PROFILES FROM HOUSEHOLD TRAVEL SURVEY DATA
• PRECISION AND BIAS OF DATA FROM FILM
• RELIABILITY OF TRAFFIC DATA
• RESEARCH NEEDS FOR DETERMINING SPATIALLY RESOLVED SUBFLEET CHARACTERISTICS
• SPATIAL AND STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF COMMERCIAL VEHICLE ACTIVITY IN METROPOLITAN ATLANTA
• SPECIFICATIONS FOR AUTOMATED LICENSE PLATE READING EQUIPMENT FOR TRANSPORTATION PLANNING
• STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF MEAN ROUTE TRAVEL TIMES ON SEVEN PRIMARY ARTERIALS IN CHICAGO METROPOLITAN REGION
• TRAFFIC COUNT ESTIMATES FOR SHORT-TERM TRAFFIC MONITORING SITES: SIMULATION STUDY
• TRUCK TRAFFIC PREDICTION USING QUICK RESPONSE FREIGHT MODEL UNDER DIFFERENT DEGREES OF GEOGRAPHIC RESOLUTION: GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM APPLICATION IN PENNSYLVANIA