Guidance for developing a freight transportation data architecture
By: Cesar Quiroga ... [et al.].
Contributors: National Research Council (U.S.). Transportation Research Board; National Cooperative Freight Research Program; United States. Dept. of Transportation. Research and Innovative Technology Administration
Series: NCFRP report -- 9; NCFRP report -- 9.
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 97
ISBN-13: 9780309155236
Subjects: Freight and freightage; Database management systems; Databases; Software architecture; Data structures (Computer science); Information retrieval
Description: TRB's National Freight Cooperative Research Program (NCFRP) Report 9: Guidance for Developing a Freight Transportation Data Architecture explores the requirements and specifications for a national freight data architecture to link myriad existing data sets, identifies the value and challenges of the potential architecture, and highlights institutional strategies to develop and maintain the architecture.     The report also includes an analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of a wide range of data sources; provides information on the development of a national freight data architecture definition that is scalable at the national, state, regional, and local levels; and offers readers a better understanding of the challenges that might block the implementation of a national freight data architecture as well as candidate strategies for developing, adopting, and maintaining it--
Notes: At head of title: National Cooperative Freight Research Program.

"Research sponsored by the Research and Innovative Technology Administration."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 82-89).

Also available online.

Performed under project no. NCFRP-12
Table of contents: title: Ch. 2. Data Sources, Systems, and Architectures; title: Ch. 3. Surveys, Interviews, and Peer Exchange; title: Ch. 4. Outline and Requirements for a National Freight Data Architecture; title: Ch. 5. Conclusions and Recommendations.