Integrating Management of Truck and Rail Systems in Los Angeles

This project will develop models to optimize the balance of freight demand across rail and truck modes. The year 2 research will use the year 1 data collected on rail operations in Southern California to perform a detailed simulation analysis to determine the capacity of the rail network. Given this capacity the project will determine the amount of freight flow that can be shifted from truck to rail. The project will also build a model to estimate the increase in freight flow that can be accommodated for a given rail capacity expansion

• Record URL:
  http://ncst.ucdavis.edu/project/usc-volvo-01

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Active
• Funding: $79604.00
• Contract Numbers:

  DTRT13-G-UTC29

• Sponsor Organizations:

  Volvo Research and Educational Foundation

  AA12700, M2.7, SE-405 08
  Sweden,    
• Performing Organizations:

  National Center for Metropolitan Transportation Research

  University of Southern California
  650 Childs Way, RGL 107
  Los Angeles, CA  United States  90089-0626

  National Center for Sustainable Transportation

  University of California, Davis
  Davis, CA  United States 
• Principal Investigators:

  Dessouky, Maged

• Start Date: 20130301
• Expected Completion Date: 0
• Actual Completion Date: 0
• Source Data: RiP Project 37442

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Data collection; Freight traffic; Freight trains; Integrated corridor management; Simulation; Trucks
• Uncontrolled Terms: Freight flow
• Geographic Terms: Los Angeles (California); Southern California
• Subject Areas: Freight Transportation; Planning and Forecasting; Railroads; Research;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01553713
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: National Center for Sustainable Transportation
• Contract Numbers: DTRT13-G-UTC29
• Files: UTC, RiP
• Created Date: Feb 20 2015 1:00AM