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Estimating Truck Trips with Product Specific Data: A Disruption Case Study in Washington Potatoes

Publication: Transportation Letters: The International Journal of Transportation Research
Volume: 4 (3)
Publication Date: 2013
Summary:

Currently, knowledge of actual freight flows in the US is insufficient at a level of geographic resolution that permits corridor-level freight transportation analysis and planning. Commodity specific origins, destinations, and routes are typically estimated from four-step models or commodity flow models. At a sub-regional level, both of these families of models are built on important assumptions driven by the limited availability of data. This study was motivated by a desire to determine whether efforts to gather corridor-level freight movement data will bring significant new insights over current approaches to freight transportation modeling. Through a case study of Washington State’s potato and value added potato products industry, we show that significant insight can be gained by collecting commodity-specific truck trip generation and destination data: the approach allows product specific truck trips to be estimated for each roadway link. When considering a network change, the number of affected trips can be identified, and their re-route distance quantified.

Authors: Dr. Anne Goodchild, Derik Andreoli, Eric Jessup
Recommended Citation:
Derik Andreoli, Anne Goodchild & Eric Jessup (2012) Estimating truck trips with product specific data: a disruption case study in Washington potatoes, Transportation Letters, 4:3, 153-166, https://doi.org/10.3328/TL.2012.04.03.153-166