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Freight Planning Capacity Building Workshop
States and MPOs looking to develop and implement specific freight planning activities can benefit tremendously from understanding lessons learned and critical success factors from colleagues that have already undertaken similar endeavors. The Freight Planning Capacity Building Workshop provided an opportunity for veterans of freight planning to share critical lessons learned with those that may be new to freight planning.
Also available in Adobe PDF format (2.3 MB).Freight Provisions in SAFETEA-LU
September 12, 2005 presentation
Tony Furst, Director, FHWA Office of Freight Management and Operations
Also available in Microsoft PowerPoint format (1.3 MB)Pocket Guide to Transportation 2005, Bureau of Transportation Statistics
Intermodal Freight Transportation: Freight Transportation Planning
TRB, Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board 1873, 04/12/2005Measuring International Trade on U.S. Highways
Panel on Bureau of Transportation Statistics International Trade Traffic, National Research Council, 2005Freight Model Improvement Program
To meet the challenges in freight planning and operations, the US Department of Transportation has initiated the Freight Model Improvement Program (FMIP) with the Department of Agriculture, the Department of Energy, and the US Army Corps of Engineers. The FHWA Office of Freight Management and Operations manages the FMIP.State-of-the-Practice In Freight Data: A Review of Available Freight Data In The U.S., (Adobe PDF 518 KB) Center for Transportation Research, University of Texas at Austin, February 2004.
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Assessing the Effects of Freight Movement on Air Quality at the National and Regional Level
Financing Idle-Reduction Projects, Public Roads, Vol. 68, No. 5, March/April 2005, by Diane Turchetta, Environmental Protection Specialist, Federal Highway Adminstration, Office of of Planning, Environment, and Realty.
NHI Course 139001 - Integrating Freight in the Transportation Planning Process
NHI Course 139002- Multimodal Freight Forecasting in Transportation Planning Course
Engaging the Private Sector in Freight Planning (Free! FHWA Resource Center Training)
Freight Data Made Simple (Free! FHWA Resource Center Training) HTML | PDF 121KB
Transportation Clubs International
Transportation Clubs International ("TCI") is a professional association consisting of transportation clubs, companies and individuals in the United States, Canada and Mexico. TCI member clubs consist of recognized experts in transportation, logistics and supply chain management involving freight and people. The purpose of TCI is to create, stimulate and perpetuate discussion of topics relating to local and national transportation issues. Find a "traffic club" in your State, and get involved with the freight sector!Freight Rail Transportation: A Review of the 2004 Experience, U.S. Congressional Budget Office, 05/16/2005
U.S. Transportation Secretary Mineta Announces Innovative Loan To Help Launch Central Texas Turnpike, March 2, 2005
Nation's Top Highway Official Highlights Innovative Public-Private Partnership on Texas Corridor Project, March 11, 2005
How America's Freight Railroads Can Relieve Traffic Congestion, Wendall Cox Consultancy
Department of Homeland Security Announces $49 Million in Grants to Secure America's Ports, 9/13/2004
Freight Analysis Framework: Issues and Plans, FHWA, Office of Freight Management and Operations, 9/24/2004. Also available in PDF.
2003 U.S. Freight Shipments with Canada and Mexico, U.S. DOT, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, 09/28/2004
2004 Emergency Response Guide, U.S. Department of Transportation, Transport Canada, and the Transportation Secretariat of Mexico, 09/28/2004
Transportation Data Research, TRB, Transportation Research Record 1855, 04/29/2004
Letter Report on the Freight Analysis Framework, TRB, 02/10/2004
The Marine Transportation System and the Federal Role: Measuring Performance, Targeting Improvement, TRB, Special Report 279, 01/08/2004
Freight Policy, Economics, and Logistics; Truck Transportation, TRB, Transportation Research Record #1833, 12/29/2003
Measuring Personal Travel and Goods Movement, TRB Special Report 277, 10/21/2003
Integrating Freight Facilities and Operations with Community Goals, NCHRP Synthesis Report 320, 10/13/2003
Dealing with Truck Parking Demands, NCHRP Synthesis Report 317, 08/05/2003
US Environmental Protection Agency, "Smartway Transport Partnership"
Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, Hours of Service Rules: Frequently Asked Questions(FAQs)
General Accounting Office, "Freight Transportation: Strategies Needed to Address Planning and Financing Limitations", Final Report, December 2003
Safe, Accountable, Flexible and Efficient Transportation Equity Act of 2003(SAFETEA): Key Information
"Talking Freight"Net-conference Seminar Series
Transportation Secretary Mineta Announces New Database to Help Public, Private Sectors Analyze and Plan for Growing Freight Movement
U.S. Secretary of Transportation Mineta Announces Successful ITS Operational Test for Intermodal Freight
National Highway System (NHS) Freight Connectors HTML| PDF(484 KB)
Transportation Research Board (TRB) Freight Activities Summary, HTML | PDF(148 KB)
