Comprehensive Planning Guidebook for Commodity and Freight Movement in Tennessee

The proposed research has the following objectives: 1. Collect and compile a geodatabase with all the available freight flow, land-use, and economic activity data (open source and/or proprietary) for the state of TN. In the case of proprietary data, samples will used if these data are not purchased by TDOT; 2. Develop and apply a methodology and tools that can be used to estimate or disaggregate freight flows, land-use, and economic activity data in the State of TN; 3. Develop a comprehensive guidebook for estimation of commodity flows, land-use and economic activity and their applicability and use in freight planning; 4. Promote collaboration between the Piedmont Atlantic Megaregion states on freight planning. The following are expected outcomes of this research project: • Development of tools to estimate more accurate freight flow data to support freight planning and policy in TN at any jurisdictional level. • Support freight planning by documenting and analyzing the strengths and limitations of emerging new freight, land-use and economic activity data sets, and their potential applications in freight planning and modeling

• Record URL:
  https://www.tn.gov/content/dam/tn/tdot/long-range-planning/research/researchsummary/RES2019-14%20Summary%20Comprehensive%20Planning%20Freight.pdf

Project

• Status: Active
• Funding: $200,000.00
• Contract Numbers:

  RES2019-14

• Sponsor Organizations:

  Tennessee Department of Transportation

  James K. Polk Building
  Fifth and Deaderick Street
  Nashville, TN  United States  37243-0349

  Federal Highway Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Managing Organizations:

  Tennessee Department of Transportation

  James K. Polk Building
  Fifth and Deaderick Street
  Nashville, TN  United States  37243-0349
• Project Managers:

  Pallme, Dan

• Performing Organizations:

  University of Memphis

  Memphis, TN  United States 
• Principal Investigators:

  Golias, Mihalis

• Start Date: 20181201
• Expected Completion Date: 20201130
• Actual Completion Date: 0
• USDOT Program: Transportation, Planning, Research, and Development

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Commodity flow; Economic development; Freight traffic; Land use
• Subject Areas: Freight Transportation; Planning and Forecasting; TRAFFIC PLANNING;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01709918
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Tennessee Department of Transportation
• Contract Numbers: RES2019-14
• Files: RiP
• Created Date: Jun 24 2019 5:03PM