A Concept for a National Freight Data Program Special Report 276 (2003) / Chapter Skim
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A A Freight Data Business Plan
A A Freight Data Business Plan
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However, this information is not readily available. In this appendix, a national freight data program that will meet the needs of transportation planners and decision makers at the local, state, and federal levels is outlined.
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Thus, transportation planners currently lack the information necessary to inform decision making, with the result that the utilization of funds and resources is often inefficient and uncoordinated. POTENTIAL CLIENT BASE For the purposes of this business plan for a national freight data program, the primary clients are public-sector transportation planners and policy makers at the local, state, and federal levels.
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, rail waybill statistics, foreign trade data, and traffic monitoring data. Private-sector sources include the Port Import Export Reporting Service (PIERS)
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Many of these same issues were raised a year later in Saratoga Springs, New York, at the conference "Data Needs in the Changing World of Logistics and Freight Transportation."2 Participants in both meetings underscored the importance of consistent and comprehensive freight data. These information needs and the growing dissatisfaction with the content and coverage of CFS data have prompted BTS to reconsider how freight data are collected, summarized, and disseminated to its customers.
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State and metropolitan agencies rarely collect data on freight movements, and fewer still use forecasting or operational models to assess their area's needs. Thus, there is a major unfilled need for data on freight movements by all modes of transportation in greater geographic detail than is provided by most national data sets.
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PRODUCT DEFINITION This plan for a national freight data program builds upon innovative ideas from both the BTS-sponsored Freight Data Round Table and the Saratoga Springs conference (see above)
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BTS data collection programs National freight database Supplemental Data Urban truck surveys, Data synthesis Customs data, DHS data programs, etc. Feedback Users Private sector, state DOTs, carriers, MPOs, other government agencies Figure A-1 Proposed architecture of a national freight data program.
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The resulting data will be summarized at the state and metropolitan area levels, as is currently done for the CFS. Other survey programs, such as the American Community Survey, have successfully transitioned to rolling sampling, and this experience could be useful in implementation of continuous surveying by a national freight data program.
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The ongoing nature of the national freight data program will allow these changes to be made quickly. For example, the data collection process in urban areas might be augmented with data on the local economy.
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The consistent data that can be harvested as a result will be useful at both the local and the national levels and will facilitate improvement of both the national freight database and data synthesis procedures. Summary The interactions among these parts of the national freight data program are shown in Figure A-1.
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(5 years and beyond) Development of the Refinement of the national Continued refinement of the national freight freight data design national data design data design Design and begin carrier Continued refinement and Begin mining and survey program conduct of carrier and publishing Design and begin distributor establishment surveys existing ITS data survey program Full implementation of freight Design and pilot test freight informatics initiative informatics Design and implement shipper Begin data synthesis and receiver surveys Refine and continue data synthesis 100% ec 80% Passive data collection uros (EDI, ITS, informatics)
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BENEFITS A national freight data program will provide better-quality and more complete information than is currently available through any existing data source. It will address needs that cannot be met through any combination of currently available freight transportation data, whether provided publicly or privately.
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