# Presentation: 923751

## FAF2 The Second Generation of Freight Analysis Framework

**Office of Freight Management and Operations**
**	****Federal Highway Administration **
- Tianjia Tang, PE, Ph.D.tianjia.tang@dot.govphone: 202-366-2217
- Fax; 202-366-7909

**Notes:**

New safety program funded at $5.1 billion almost doubles funds for infrastructure safety and requires strategic highway safety planning focusing on results.
New equity bonus program ensures rate of return is at least 90.5% in 2005, building toward 92% by 2008.
SAFETEA-LU makes it easier and more attractive for private sector to participate in highway infrastructure projects by broadening existing innovative finance programs and increasing opportunities for tolling.
Significantly increases investments in freight-related projects through programs focus on projects of national/regional significance, corridors, borders, and intermodal facilities.  Incorporates freight issues in planning and financing.

Increases authority and responsibility for transportation agencies in the environmental review process.  Sets 180-day statute of limitations for litigation.

Establishes commissions on the future of the surface transportation system and surface transportation infrastructure financing to examine both needs and funding.

## Presentation Outline

- FAF Objective
- Approaches
- Deliverables
- FAF2 Structure and Components
- Question/Answer

**Notes:**

New safety program funded at $5.1 billion almost doubles funds for infrastructure safety and requires strategic highway safety planning focusing on results.
New equity bonus program ensures rate of return is at least 90.5% in 2005, building toward 92% by 2008.
SAFETEA-LU makes it easier and more attractive for private sector to participate in highway infrastructure projects by broadening existing innovative finance programs and increasing opportunities for tolling.
Significantly increases investments in freight-related projects through programs focus on projects of national/regional significance, corridors, borders, and intermodal facilities.  Incorporates freight issues in planning and financing.

Increases authority and responsibility for transportation agencies in the environmental review process.  Sets 180-day statute of limitations for litigation.

Establishes commissions on the future of the surface transportation system and surface transportation infrastructure financing to examine both needs and funding.

## FAF2 - Objective

- To answer freight shipment volume and congestion questions on the highway system
- To answer freight shipment route/corridor questions
- To answer freight shipment modal questions
- Other derivative usages

**Notes:**

New safety program funded at $5.1 billion almost doubles funds for infrastructure safety and requires strategic highway safety planning focusing on results.
New equity bonus program ensures rate of return is at least 90.5% in 2005, building toward 92% by 2008.
SAFETEA-LU makes it easier and more attractive for private sector to participate in highway infrastructure projects by broadening existing innovative finance programs and increasing opportunities for tolling.
Significantly increases investments in freight-related projects through programs focus on projects of national/regional significance, corridors, borders, and intermodal facilities.  Incorporates freight issues in planning and financing.

Increases authority and responsibility for transportation agencies in the environmental review process.  Sets 180-day statute of limitations for litigation.

Establishes commissions on the future of the surface transportation system and surface transportation infrastructure financing to examine both needs and funding.

## FAF2 - Objective

- To answer freight shipment volume and congestion questions on the highway system
- To answer freight shipment route/corridor questions
- To answer freight shipment modal questions
- Other derivative usages

- Big Picture and National Overview

**Notes:**

New safety program funded at $5.1 billion almost doubles funds for infrastructure safety and requires strategic highway safety planning focusing on results.
New equity bonus program ensures rate of return is at least 90.5% in 2005, building toward 92% by 2008.
SAFETEA-LU makes it easier and more attractive for private sector to participate in highway infrastructure projects by broadening existing innovative finance programs and increasing opportunities for tolling.
Significantly increases investments in freight-related projects through programs focus on projects of national/regional significance, corridors, borders, and intermodal facilities.  Incorporates freight issues in planning and financing.

Increases authority and responsibility for transportation agencies in the environmental review process.  Sets 180-day statute of limitations for litigation.

Establishes commissions on the future of the surface transportation system and surface transportation infrastructure financing to examine both needs and funding.

## FAF2 - Objective

- To answer freight shipment volume and congestion questions on the highway system
- To answer freight shipment route/corridor questions
- To answer freight shipment modal questions
- Other derivative usages

- 1)  FHWA/US DOT policy and investment analyses
- 2) Other derivative usages

**Notes:**

New safety program funded at $5.1 billion almost doubles funds for infrastructure safety and requires strategic highway safety planning focusing on results.
New equity bonus program ensures rate of return is at least 90.5% in 2005, building toward 92% by 2008.
SAFETEA-LU makes it easier and more attractive for private sector to participate in highway infrastructure projects by broadening existing innovative finance programs and increasing opportunities for tolling.
Significantly increases investments in freight-related projects through programs focus on projects of national/regional significance, corridors, borders, and intermodal facilities.  Incorporates freight issues in planning and financing.

Increases authority and responsibility for transportation agencies in the environmental review process.  Sets 180-day statute of limitations for litigation.

Establishes commissions on the future of the surface transportation system and surface transportation infrastructure financing to examine both needs and funding.

## FAF2 - Approach

- Data Sources – public data
- Methods and Models – transparent and duplicable
- Deliverables – data, methods, and results are publicly available

**Notes:**
I want to start off with a few observations and then will walk  through some specifics.

 SAFETEA-LU takes several important steps forward—
 First, it incorporates and supports system management and operations in a number of ways.
 Second, it puts significant focus on congestion mitigation, including congestion management, real-time information, and ITS.
  Third, it significantly increases attention to freight needs and issues.  In TEA-21 you would be hard pressed to find much specific investment or support for freight interests.  That is not the case with SAFETEA-LU.
 Finally, it provides continued support for ITS R&D while mainstreaming ITS Deployment.

## Deliverables 

**Commodity O-D Related**

_**FAF2 Network Related **_

**Notes:**
SAFETEA-LU mainstreams ITS deployment throughout the Federal-aid program, clarifying eligibility and referencing ITS in a number of different areas.  It makes clear that ITS is eligible for funding under NHS, STP, and CMAQ and requires the establishment of a Categorical NEPA exclusion for ITS projects. 
	Note:  Categorical exclusion means a category of actions which do not individually or cumulatively have a significant effect on the human environment...and...for which, therefore, neither an environmental assessment nor an environmental impact statement is required.

While SAFETEA-LU ends the TEA-21 funded ITS Deployment Program in 2005, it establishes a new program to fund the deployment of the Commercial Vehicle Information Systems and Networks (more detail on upcoming slide).

And finally, perhaps the most evident sign that ITS is becoming mainstreamed, a number of ITS projects are contained within the thousands of high priority projects contained in SAFETEA-LU.

## Deliverables 

- 1)	The current 2002 O-D database
- 2) 	Projections for years between 	2010 	and 2035 in 5 year interval
- 3)	Annual provisional estimate
**   **

- Deliverables

**Commodity O-D Related**

**Notes:**
SAFETEA-LU mainstreams ITS deployment throughout the Federal-aid program, clarifying eligibility and referencing ITS in a number of different areas.  It makes clear that ITS is eligible for funding under NHS, STP, and CMAQ and requires the establishment of a Categorical NEPA exclusion for ITS projects. 
	Note:  Categorical exclusion means a category of actions which do not individually or cumulatively have a significant effect on the human environment...and...for which, therefore, neither an environmental assessment nor an environmental impact statement is required.

While SAFETEA-LU ends the TEA-21 funded ITS Deployment Program in 2005, it establishes a new program to fund the deployment of the Commercial Vehicle Information Systems and Networks (more detail on upcoming slide).

And finally, perhaps the most evident sign that ITS is becoming mainstreamed, a number of ITS projects are contained within the thousands of high priority projects contained in SAFETEA-LU.

- 1) 	The 2002 O-D truck O-D database
- 2) 	Future truck O-D databases for year 2015 	and 2030
- 3)	FAF2 national highway network
- 4)	Various products (corridor, congestion...) 	from truck network loading
- 5)	FAF2 water and rail assigned networks
**   **

_**FAF2 Network Related **_

- Deliverables

**Notes:**
SAFETEA-LU mainstreams ITS deployment throughout the Federal-aid program, clarifying eligibility and referencing ITS in a number of different areas.  It makes clear that ITS is eligible for funding under NHS, STP, and CMAQ and requires the establishment of a Categorical NEPA exclusion for ITS projects. 
	Note:  Categorical exclusion means a category of actions which do not individually or cumulatively have a significant effect on the human environment...and...for which, therefore, neither an environmental assessment nor an environmental impact statement is required.

While SAFETEA-LU ends the TEA-21 funded ITS Deployment Program in 2005, it establishes a new program to fund the deployment of the Commercial Vehicle Information Systems and Networks (more detail on upcoming slide).

And finally, perhaps the most evident sign that ITS is becoming mainstreamed, a number of ITS projects are contained within the thousands of high priority projects contained in SAFETEA-LU.

## FAF2 Structure

**Base Case **
**Commodity O-D**
**2002**

**Future Commodity O-D**
**2010-2035**

_**FAF2 Highway **_
_**Network**_

_**Vessel Flow O-D**_

_**Assigned FAF2  **_
_**Network**_

_**Assigned Water **_
_**Network**_

_**Assigned Rail **_
_**Network**_

## FAF2 Structure

**Commodity O-D**
**2002**

**Future Commodity O-D**
**2010-2035**

_**FAF2 Highway **_
_**Network**_

_**Vessel Flow O-D**_

_**Assigned FAF2  **_
_**Network**_

_**Assigned Water **_
_**Network**_

_**Assigned Rail **_
_**Network**_

## FAF2 Structure

**Commodity O-D**
**2002**

**Future Commodity O-D**
**2010-2035**

_**FAF2 Highway **_
_**Network**_

_**Vessel Flow O-D**_

_**Assigned FAF2  **_
_**Network**_

- The 2002 O-D database – Oakridge National Lab (ORNL)
- The OS Studies - MacroSys Research and Technology and ORNL

_**Assigned Water **_
_**Network**_

_**Assigned Rail **_
_**Network**_

## FAF2 Structure

**Commodity O-D**
**2002**

**Future Commodity O-D**
**2010-2035**

_**FAF2 Highway **_
_**Network**_

_**Vessel Flow O-D**_

_**Assigned FAF2  **_
_**Network**_

_**Assigned Water **_
_**Network**_

_**Assigned Rail **_
_**Network**_

## FAF2 Structure

**Commodity O-D**
**2002**

**Future Commodity O-D**
**2010-2035**

_**FAF2 Highway **_
_**Network**_

_**Vessel Flow O-D**_

_**Assigned FAF2  **_
_**Network**_

_**Assigned Water **_
_**Network**_

_**Assigned Rail **_
_**Network**_

- Future O-D databases – Contractors are being solicited.

## FAF2 Structure

**Commodity O-D**
**2002**

**Future Commodity O-D**
**2010-2035**

_**FAF2 Highway **_
_**Network**_

_**Vessel Flow O-D**_

_**Assigned FAF2  **_
_**Network**_

_**Assigned Water **_
_**Network**_

_**Assigned Rail **_
_**Network**_

## FAF2 Structure

**Commodity O-D**
**2002**

**Future Commodity O-D**
**2010-2035**

_**FAF2 Highway **_
_**Network**_

_**Vessel Flow O-D**_

_**Assigned FAF2  **_
_**Network**_

_**Assigned Water **_
_**Network**_

_**Assigned Rail **_
_**Network**_

## FAF2 Structure

**Commodity O-D**
**2002**

**Future Commodity O-D**
**2010-2035**

_**FAF2 Highway **_
_**Network**_

_**Vessel Flow O-D**_

_**Assigned FAF2  **_
_**Network**_

_**Assigned Water **_
_**Network**_

_**Assigned Rail **_
_**Network**_

## FAF2 Structure

**Commodity O-D**
**2002**

**Future Commodity O-D**
**2010-2035**

_**FAF2 Highway **_
_**Network**_

_**Vessel Flow O-D**_

_**Assigned FAF2  **_
_**Network**_

- Contactors are needed

_**Assigned Water **_
_**Network**_

_**Assigned Rail **_
_**Network**_

## FAF2 Structure

**Commodity O-D**
**2002**

**Future Commodity O-D**
**2010-2035**

_**FAF2 Highway **_
_**Network**_

_**Vessel Flow O-D**_

_**Assigned FAF2  **_
_**Network**_

_**Assigned Water **_
_**Network**_

_**Assigned Rail **_
_**Network**_

- FRA

- Army COE

## 114 Commodity Flow Survey (CFS) regions
17 additional international gateways (AIG)
7 International trade regions 

- 17 additional international gateways (AIG)
- 7 International trade regions

- _A Total of 17,196,732 Matrix Cell Values for a given time period_

- FAF**2** : Commodity Geographical Resolution

**Notes:**
SAFETEA-LU mainstreams ITS deployment throughout the Federal-aid program, clarifying eligibility and referencing ITS in a number of different areas.  It makes clear that ITS is eligible for funding under NHS, STP, and CMAQ and requires the establishment of a Categorical NEPA exclusion for ITS projects. 
	Note:  Categorical exclusion means a category of actions which do not individually or cumulatively have a significant effect on the human environment...and...for which, therefore, neither an environmental assessment nor an environmental impact statement is required.

While SAFETEA-LU ends the TEA-21 funded ITS Deployment Program in 2005, it establishes a new program to fund the deployment of the Commercial Vehicle Information Systems and Networks (more detail on upcoming slide).

And finally, perhaps the most evident sign that ITS is becoming mainstreamed, a number of ITS projects are contained within the thousands of high priority projects contained in SAFETEA-LU.

## 114 CFS Zones (Green and White)

**Notes:**
Just to give you a flavor for these projects, here are some of them.  There are dozens more like these.

Beyond ITS, these earmarks include many projects focus on improving signal systems, traffic flow, freight management, and other systems management and operating improvements.

## FAF2 - 13 AIG (Magenta)

- _Land Crossings: Laredo TX; Blaine WA; International Falls MN; Champlain/Rouses Point NY; Alexandria Bay NY; El Paso TX; Brownsville/Hidalgo,TX._
- Ports_: Beaumont TX; Charleston SC; Portland ME;Savannah GA; Morgan City LA; Corpus Christi TX; Lake Charles LA; Baton Rouge LA; Mobile AL; _
- _Airport: Anchorage AK_

**Notes:**
Just to give you a flavor for these projects, here are some of them.  There are dozens more like these.

Beyond ITS, these earmarks include many projects focus on improving signal systems, traffic flow, freight management, and other systems management and operating improvements.

## FAF2 - 7 International Trade Regions

- Canada
- Mexico
- Latin and South America
- Asia
- Europe
- Middle East
- Rest of the World

**Notes:**
Just to give you a flavor for these projects, here are some of them.  There are dozens more like these.

Beyond ITS, these earmarks include many projects focus on improving signal systems, traffic flow, freight management, and other systems management and operating improvements.

## FAF2 – Transportation Mode

- Truck
- Rail
- Water
- Air
- Pipeline
- Intermodal
- Others

**Notes:**
Just to give you a flavor for these projects, here are some of them.  There are dozens more like these.

Beyond ITS, these earmarks include many projects focus on improving signal systems, traffic flow, freight management, and other systems management and operating improvements.

## FAF2 – Commodity Classification

- Standard Classification for Transported Goods (SCTG)

- _At 2-digit level, there are 42 commodities+ 1 unknown._

**Notes:**
Just to give you a flavor for these projects, here are some of them.  There are dozens more like these.

Beyond ITS, these earmarks include many projects focus on improving signal systems, traffic flow, freight management, and other systems management and operating improvements.

## FAF2 – Commodity Classification

- _Categories Outside CFS_

**Farm based agricultural**
**Fishery **
**Crude petroleum**
**Natural gas**
**Municipal solid waste**
**Construction**
**Logging**
**Services**
**Publishing**
** ****Retail**
** ****Household & Business Moves**
** ****Import**
** ****Export**
** **
**	****	****	****	****	****	**_**continued ...**_

**Notes:**
Just to give you a flavor for these projects, here are some of them.  There are dozens more like these.

Beyond ITS, these earmarks include many projects focus on improving signal systems, traffic flow, freight management, and other systems management and operating improvements.

## FAF2 – Future Goods Movement

- The regional economic growth projections for years between 2010 and 2035 are analyzed through economic models for three different scenarios – normal growth, low growth, and high growth.  These growth data  are commodity specific.

**Notes:**
Just to give you a flavor for these projects, here are some of them.  There are dozens more like these.

Beyond ITS, these earmarks include many projects focus on improving signal systems, traffic flow, freight management, and other systems management and operating improvements.

## FAF2 – Routing Future Goods Movement

- For a given commodity, the modal split remains constant unless information indicates otherwise.

- _This does not guarantee that total modal share is constant. If commodity shares are changed, then total modal share will be changed, too._

**Notes:**
Just to give you a flavor for these projects, here are some of them.  There are dozens more like these.

Beyond ITS, these earmarks include many projects focus on improving signal systems, traffic flow, freight management, and other systems management and operating improvements.

## 2002 O-D CD Content 

- 2002 O-D CD Content

**Notes:**
SAFETEA-LU mainstreams ITS deployment throughout the Federal-aid program, clarifying eligibility and referencing ITS in a number of different areas.  It makes clear that ITS is eligible for funding under NHS, STP, and CMAQ and requires the establishment of a Categorical NEPA exclusion for ITS projects. 
	Note:  Categorical exclusion means a category of actions which do not individually or cumulatively have a significant effect on the human environment...and...for which, therefore, neither an environmental assessment nor an environmental impact statement is required.

While SAFETEA-LU ends the TEA-21 funded ITS Deployment Program in 2005, it establishes a new program to fund the deployment of the Commercial Vehicle Information Systems and Networks (more detail on upcoming slide).

And finally, perhaps the most evident sign that ITS is becoming mainstreamed, a number of ITS projects are contained within the thousands of high priority projects contained in SAFETEA-LU.

## 2002 O-D CD Content 

- 2002 O-D CD Content

- Download site:
- _[http://www.ops.](http://www.ops.fhwa.dot.gov/freight/freight_analysis/faf/index.htm)__[fhwa](http://www.ops.fhwa.dot.gov/freight/freight_analysis/faf/index.htm)__[.dot.](http://www.ops.fhwa.dot.gov/freight/freight_analysis/faf/index.htm)__[gov](http://www.ops.fhwa.dot.gov/freight/freight_analysis/faf/index.htm)__[/freight/freight_analysis/](http://www.ops.fhwa.dot.gov/freight/freight_analysis/faf/index.htm)__[faf](http://www.ops.fhwa.dot.gov/freight/freight_analysis/faf/index.htm)__[/index.](http://www.ops.fhwa.dot.gov/freight/freight_analysis/faf/index.htm)__[htm](http://www.ops.fhwa.dot.gov/freight/freight_analysis/faf/index.htm)_
- http://www.ops.fhwa.dot.gov/freight

**Notes:**
SAFETEA-LU mainstreams ITS deployment throughout the Federal-aid program, clarifying eligibility and referencing ITS in a number of different areas.  It makes clear that ITS is eligible for funding under NHS, STP, and CMAQ and requires the establishment of a Categorical NEPA exclusion for ITS projects. 
	Note:  Categorical exclusion means a category of actions which do not individually or cumulatively have a significant effect on the human environment...and...for which, therefore, neither an environmental assessment nor an environmental impact statement is required.

While SAFETEA-LU ends the TEA-21 funded ITS Deployment Program in 2005, it establishes a new program to fund the deployment of the Commercial Vehicle Information Systems and Networks (more detail on upcoming slide).

And finally, perhaps the most evident sign that ITS is becoming mainstreamed, a number of ITS projects are contained within the thousands of high priority projects contained in SAFETEA-LU.

## 2002 O-D CD Content 

- 2: 	FAFOD_DOM_2002.cvs
- 	FAFOD_BRD_2002.cvs
- 	FAFOD_SEA_2002.cvs
- 3:	faf_od_users_guide.pdf

- 2002 O-D CD Content

**Notes:**
SAFETEA-LU mainstreams ITS deployment throughout the Federal-aid program, clarifying eligibility and referencing ITS in a number of different areas.  It makes clear that ITS is eligible for funding under NHS, STP, and CMAQ and requires the establishment of a Categorical NEPA exclusion for ITS projects. 
	Note:  Categorical exclusion means a category of actions which do not individually or cumulatively have a significant effect on the human environment...and...for which, therefore, neither an environmental assessment nor an environmental impact statement is required.

While SAFETEA-LU ends the TEA-21 funded ITS Deployment Program in 2005, it establishes a new program to fund the deployment of the Commercial Vehicle Information Systems and Networks (more detail on upcoming slide).

And finally, perhaps the most evident sign that ITS is becoming mainstreamed, a number of ITS projects are contained within the thousands of high priority projects contained in SAFETEA-LU.

## Data Format

**The current 2002 FAF2 OD CD**
**Domestic**

- FAFOD_2002.mdb

**Notes:**
SAFETEA-LU mainstreams ITS deployment throughout the Federal-aid program, clarifying eligibility and referencing ITS in a number of different areas.  It makes clear that ITS is eligible for funding under NHS, STP, and CMAQ and requires the establishment of a Categorical NEPA exclusion for ITS projects. 
	Note:  Categorical exclusion means a category of actions which do not individually or cumulatively have a significant effect on the human environment...and...for which, therefore, neither an environmental assessment nor an environmental impact statement is required.

While SAFETEA-LU ends the TEA-21 funded ITS Deployment Program in 2005, it establishes a new program to fund the deployment of the Commercial Vehicle Information Systems and Networks (more detail on upcoming slide).

And finally, perhaps the most evident sign that ITS is becoming mainstreamed, a number of ITS projects are contained within the thousands of high priority projects contained in SAFETEA-LU.

## Data Format

- FAFOD_BRD_2002
- FAFOD_SEA_2002

## Data Format

- FAFOD_BRD_2002
- FAFOD_SEA_2002

## FAF2 - Status

- 2002 base case database – January 2006
- 2005 annual provisional estimate – Summer 2006
- Other annual provisional estimate – March of the following year
- Flow database – Fall 2006
- Projections of 2010-2035 – Fall 2006
- Loaded network – Fall 2006

- _39_

**Notes:**
I want to start off with a few observations and then will walk  through some specifics.

 SAFETEA-LU takes several important steps forward—
 First, it incorporates and supports system management and operations in a number of ways.
 Second, it puts significant focus on congestion mitigation, including congestion management, real-time information, and ITS.
  Third, it significantly increases attention to freight needs and issues.  In TEA-21 you would be hard pressed to find much specific investment or support for freight interests.  That is not the case with SAFETEA-LU.
 Finally, it provides continued support for ITS R&D while mainstreaming ITS Deployment.

## TIANJIA.TANG@DOT.GOV

**Notes:**
I want to start off with a few observations and then will walk  through some specifics.

 SAFETEA-LU takes several important steps forward—
 First, it incorporates and supports system management and operations in a number of ways.
 Second, it puts significant focus on congestion mitigation, including congestion management, real-time information, and ITS.
  Third, it significantly increases attention to freight needs and issues.  In TEA-21 you would be hard pressed to find much specific investment or support for freight interests.  That is not the case with SAFETEA-LU.
 Finally, it provides continued support for ITS R&D while mainstreaming ITS Deployment.