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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, 04/12/2005

• Measuring International Trade on U.S. Highways
  Panel on Bureau of Transportation Statistics International Trade Traffic, National Research Council, 2005

• Freight 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.

• 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

• Maritime Security: Better Planning Needed to Help Ensure an Effective Port Security Assessment Program, U.S. Governmental Accountability Office, 10/1/2004

• How America's Freight Railroads Can Relieve Traffic Congestion, Wendall Cox Consultancy

• Department of Homeland Security Announces Additional $21 Million Grant in Partnership with American Trucking Association, 9/12/2004

• 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

• Corridors for Toll Truckways: Suggested Locations for Pilot Projects, Policy Study 316, Reason Public policy Institute

• 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

• Freight Professional Development (FPD) Program

• Transportation Planning Capacity Building (TPCB) Program

• 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)