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An Initial Assessment of Freight Bottlenecks on Highways

prepared for
Federal Highway Administration
Office of Transportation Policy Studies

prepared by
Cambridge Systematics, Inc.
100 CambridgePark Drive, Suite 400
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02140

in association with
Battelle Memorial Institute
Columbus, Ohio

October 2005

Also available in PDF PDF (2.82 MBs)


Table of Contents

Executive Summary

1.0 Introduction

2.0 National Freight System Capacity and Performance

3.0 Highway Truck Bottleneck Typology

4.0 Methodology

5.0 Highway Truck Bottlenecks

6.0 Conclusions and Recommendations

Appendix A

Appendix B

Appendix C

Appendix D

List of Tables

List of Figures



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