Identify Best Types of Commodity Flow Data for Freight, Railroad, Ports and Waterways Studies
Having recent, relevant, accessible, and easily updated freight data across various modes is important to prioritize transportation investments, develop transport policy, and attract new businesses while enabling existing ones to grow. Current datasets are limited in their ability to demonstrate supply chain patterns or lack commodity and spatial details and are expensive. This data deficiency severely limits the ability of policymakers to properly plan for and leverage freight movement for economic purposes. The continued strength of industry clusters in Minnesota depends on the state’s ability to understand the movement of these goods in and out of the state. This research aims to analyze various types of databases and to determine which of them are the most helpful for planning, programming, and design of future infrastructure on the truck freight, railroad, and ports and waterways networks within Minnesota and surrounding states. The researchers will also assess and recommend methodologies for the generation and collection of freight data, freight trip generation, and service trips within the context of Minnesota Department of Transportation's (MnDOT's) freight studies.
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Language
- English
Project
- Status: Completed
- Funding: $114914
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Contract Numbers:
1036342 WO#13
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Sponsor Organizations:
Minnesota Department of Transportation
395 John Ireland Boulevard
St Paul, MN United States 55155 -
Performing Organizations:
University of Minnesota, Humphrey School of Public Affairs
301 19th Ave. South
Minneapolis, MN United States 55455 -
Principal Investigators:
Fonseca-Sarmiento, Camila
- Start Date: 20210615
- Expected Completion Date: 20221231
- Actual Completion Date: 20221231
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Commodity flow; Data analysis; Data collection; Databases; Freight transportation
- Geographic Terms: Minnesota
- Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Freight Transportation; Planning and Forecasting;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01762358
- Record Type: Research project
- Source Agency: Minnesota Department of Transportation
- Contract Numbers: 1036342 WO#13
- Files: RIP, STATEDOT
- Created Date: Jan 20 2021 1:44PM