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NCFRP Report 13: Freight Facility Location Selection: A Guide for Public Officials (2011)
National Cooperative Freight Research Program (NCFRP)

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Hodge, Daniel, Steele, Christopher W, Transportation Research Board. "Best practices for the public sector." NCFRP Report 13: Freight Facility Location Selection: A Guide for Public Officials. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2011.

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Front Matter (R1-R10)
What is the purpose of this guide? (1-2)
Who should use this guide? (3-3)
How to use this guide (4-4)
What do we mean by freight facilities? (5-9)
Keys to freight facility development success (10-10)
Chapter 2: Evaluating Freight Facility Impacts and Benefits (11-12)
Economic effects (13-13)
Transportation effects (14-15)
Other public sector costs (16-16)
Chapter 3: The Critical Roles of Groundwork and Collaboration (17-18)
Laying the groundwork (19-21)
Public sector assistance and incentives (22-24)
Best practices for the public sector (25-28)
Chapter 4: How the Location Selection Process Works (29-29)
Site selection: the big picture (30-30)
Stages of site selection (31-31)
Planning and strategy (32-33)
Network modeling and analysis (34-34)
Location screening (35-35)
Field and site analysis (36-36)
Cost modeling (37-37)
Incentives, negotiations, and final selection (38-38)
Chapter 5: How Candidate Sites Are Evaluated (39-39)
Ability to access key markets or customers (40-42)
Interaction with transportation networks (43-47)
Labor and workforce (48-48)
Total cost environment (49-49)
Availability and cost of suitable facilities (50-51)
Tax environment (52-52)
Weighing site selection factors (53-54)
Changing role of the freight facility (55-55)
Changes in global sourcing (56-57)
Fuel costs and environmental factors (58-59)
Computer model use and sophistication (60-60)
Transportation network congestion (61-61)
Competition with other types of development (62-62)
Appendix A: List of private sector interviewees (63-63)
Appendix B: Glossary of terms (64-69)
Abbreviations used without definitions in TRB publications (70-70)