Efficiency and Reliability in Freight Transportation

This project extends the frontier of reliability assessment for freight shipments and modes. It provides new tools and techniques that public agencies, shippers, carriers and other parties can use to assess the reliability of freight systems.

• Record URL:
  http://ntc.umd.edu/node/43

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Completed
• Funding: $180534.00
• Contract Numbers:

  DTRT13-G-UTC30

• Sponsor Organizations:

  National Transportation Center @ Maryland

  1173 Glenn L. Martin Hall
  University of Maryland
  College Park, Maryland  United States  20742
• Project Managers:

  Zhang, Lei

• Performing Organizations:

  North Carolina State University

  Department of Civil Engineering, Campus Box 7908
  Raleigh, NC  United States  27695-7908
• Principal Investigators:

  List, George

• Start Date: 20140401
• Expected Completion Date: 0
• Actual Completion Date: 20150601
• Source Data: RiP Project 37176

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Carriers; Evaluation and assessment; Freight traffic; Freight transportation; Reliability; Shipping
• Subject Areas: Freight Transportation; Planning and Forecasting;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01575248
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: National Transportation Center @ Maryland
• Contract Numbers: DTRT13-G-UTC30
• Files: UTC, RIP
• Created Date: Sep 1 2015 1:43AM