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Freight Performance Measure Approaches for Bottlenecks, Arterials, and Linking Volumes to Congestion Report

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1. Report No.

FHWA-HOP-15-033

2. Government Accession No.

3. Recipient’s Catalog No.

4. Title and Subtitle

Freight Performance Measure Approaches for Bottlenecks, Arterials, and Linking Volumes to Congestion Report

5. Report Date

August 2015

6. Performing Organization Code

7. Author(s)

Richard Margiotta, Bill Eisele, and Jeffrey Short

8. Performing Organization Report No.

9. Performing Organization Name and Address

Cambridge Systematics, Inc.
4800 Hampden Lane, Suite 800
Bethesda, MD 20814

10. Work Unit No. (TRAIS)

11. Contract or Grant No.

DTFH61-11-D-00012

12. Sponsoring Agency Name and Address

Federal Highway Administration
Office of Freight Management and Operations
1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
Washington, DC 20590

13. Type of Report and Period Covered

14. Sponsoring Agency Code

15. Supplementary Notes

16. Abstract

Section 1115 of MAP-21 (“National Freight Policy”) specifically requires the development of new tools and improvement to existing tools to support the analysis and evaluation of freight transportation projects in order to more strategically target investments and improve performance of the transportation system. This report deals with three aspects of this directive:

  1. Comprehensive analysis of freight bottlenecks-research and evaluation of national and state level approaches to identifying freight bottlenecks and methodologies for measuring the performance of truck freight bottlenecks;
  2. Arterial mobility performance-development of methods that produce valid and reliable performance measures from truck-based probe data, speed and travel times; and
  3. Linkage of truck volumes to congestion methodologies-development of methods for integrating travel times from truck probe data with truck volumes, flows, and demands.

The National Performance Management Research Data Set (NPMRDS) is being used to develop examples of the recommended analysis.

17. Key Words

Freight, Bottlenecks, Performance, Measures, Mobility

18. Distribution Statement

No restrictions

19. Security Classif. (of this report)

Unclassified

20. Security Classif. (of this page)

Unclassified

21. No of Pages

104

22. Price

N/A

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