Freight-demand modeling to support public-sector decision making
By: Cambridge Systematics, Inc. and GeoStats, LLP
Contributors: National Cooperative Freight Research Program; United States. Department of Transportation. Research and Innovative Technology Administration; Cambridge Systematics; GeoStats, LLP
Series: NCFRP report -- 8
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 58
ISBN-13: 9780309155137
Subjects: Decision making; Public administration; Mathematical models; Estimates; Freight and freightage; Governments
Description: "This report presents an evaluation of possible improvements in freight demand models and other analysis tools and provides a guidebook to assist model developers in implementing these improvements. The report is especially valuable for its findings of general satisfaction with methods available to support freight planning, but concerns with the data available to support that planning. As such, the report focuses on ways to use existing data to develop data inputs for the model, showing that existing and readily available data can be used to develop the inputs required by freight models. The report will enable decisionmakers at a range of geographical levels to improve the usability of freight demand models."--pub. desc.
Notes: At head of title: National Cooperative Freight Research Program.

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

Includes bibliographical references.

Also available online.

Performed under project no. NCFRP-6.
Table of contents: title: Ch. 1. Introduction; title: Ch. 2. Current Needs and Practices; title: Ch. 3. Research To Fill Critical Gaps; title: Ch. 4. Guidebook; title: Ch. 5. Conclusions and Recommendations.