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At this preliminary stage of freight performance reporting, the report card is proposed to be a first-generation framework that would be expected to expand and evolve over time. The creation of such a report card is likely to be catalytic and lead to greater interest in freight metrics, requests for additional metrics, and the catalyzing of an expanded and more comprehensive reporting process over a number of years, if not decades.
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Eventually, there may need to be many freight performance reports, one for each major area of concern. Those could include the six major areas included in this recommended report card: Freight Demand, Freight Efficiency, System Conditions, Environmental Impacts, Safety, and Investment.
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The common definition can also be used to guide organizations providing data to a national set of freight performance measures. Data Quality and Accuracy Standards A process needs to be put in place to do a check of the quality and accuracy of the data before the data are populated in the database to feed the report card.
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