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65 A P P E N D I X B B.1 American Trucking Trends (ATT) B.1.1 Overview ATT is the almanac of U.S.
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66 ATT also uses other data sources, as follows, for other parts of this report: • Avondale Partners, LLC (Nashville, TN 37203) ; Employment and Earnings (Washington, D.C.
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67 seasonal weighting. Continuous count class data is reported to TMAS, which uses the following automated checks for data quality: • Duplicates within the batch • Fatal error occurs if – No C in the 1st digit of the record – Record length less than number of characters based on station data field 15 – No station ID in the record (columns 4-9)
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68 • Crossing time and delay statistics at freight significant U.S.Canadian border crossings; and • Information describing demand for truck routes and highway facilities throughout the U.S. These efforts have already had a promising start, ATRI's first report using FPM web to understand bottlenecks has led to the State of Illinois promising to address the report's Number 1 bottleneck in the United States, which is outside of Chicago (ATRI and FHWA, 2011)
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69 are relevant to truck activity: Cass Freight Index, a measure of North American freight shipments and expenditures; Cass Truckload Linehaul Index, reflecting fluctuations in U.S. domestic truckload linehaul rates; Cass Intermodal Price Index, measuring changes in U.S.
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70 B.5 Commodity Flow Survey B.5.1 Overview The Commodity Flow Survey (CFS) is a shipper-based survey conducted every 5 years as part of the economic census.
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71 B.5.2.4 How Can the Data be Accessed? A variety of high-level summaries are available for download and viewing in HTML, xls, and csv formats from the BTS website for the Commodity Flow Survey at http://www.bts.
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72 business establishments engaged in several transportation industries, paralleling the data on establishments in other sectors. The final major expansion of the economic census took place in 1992, adding more transportation industries, plus finance, insurance, real estate, communications, and utilities, a group accounting for more than 20 percent of U.S.
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73 tonnage in the FAF. Modal and economic data are used for provisional annual estimates for years since the last benchmark.
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74 B.7.2.3 How Are the Data Maintained? The FAF is an ongoing project that is funded by FHWA using in-house staff and contractors, including Oak Ridge National Laboratories.
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75 estimates of county-level flows by county, direction, and composition. • Broward County (FL)
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76 B.8.2 The Basics B.8.2.1 How Are the Data Generated? The data was generated by GPS transponders on trucks.
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77 investment decisions, and provide a national archive of realworld-based heavy/medium-truck operational data to support heavy vehicle energy efficiency research. The H/MTDC Projects are sponsored by DOE's Office of Vehicle Technologies (OVT)
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78 B.9.2.3 How Can the Data be Accessed? The final report on the HTDC and MTDC Projects is available online at: http://cta.ornl.gov/cta/CMVRTC/htdc.html and http://cta.ornl.gov/cta/CMVRTC/mtdc.html.
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79 make sure systems have logic flows. There is a large body of automated TMAS quality checks that ensure that good data is collected and bad data is retained but noted.
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80 provide tractor/truck information on behalf of their company drivers or owner-operators. Fully integrated with the California Air Resources Board (CARB)
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81 B.12 International Registration Plan (IRP) Data B.12.1 Overview The International Registration Plan (IRP)
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82 data along with information on tonnage, mileage, employees, transportation equipment, and other items. The sponsorship of this data program has shifted from Department of Transportation from the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC)
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83 uses of the data are (1) developing the U.S.
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84 B.14.2.6 Does Metadata Exist? The metadata is publicly available on the MCMIS website at http://mcmiscatalog.fmcsa.dot.gov/.
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85 mated Export System by exporters and their agents (68 percent) , and electronic transmissions from Canada for U.S.
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86 travelers' route planning, incident management, and congestion mitigation, it was not useful for policy making. But the private-sector has continued to expand its capabilities to provide speed data on corridors that might be useful to policy makers beyond what is currently instrumented by public-sector-operated detection systems.
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87 federal income taxes. Firms without paid employees (nonemployers)
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88 The Quarterly Services Surveys (QSS) are published in a much more timely fashion than the Services Annual Survey, which is currently published 14 months after the close of a survey year.
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89 Global Insight after the firm acquired Reebie in 2005. The historical database combines primary shipment data obtained from 22 of the nation's largest freight carriers with information from public sources, and is accompanied with 30-year forecasts consistent with IHS Global Insight's macro forecasts.
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90 rail, facilitates a highly competitive market that bridges the gap between U.S. grain producers and domestic and foreign consumers.
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91 griculturalTransportation&leftNav=AgriculturalTransporta tion&page=ATModalShareReport&description=Transport ation%20of%20U.S.%20Grains:%20%20A%20Modal%20 Share%20Analysis. In parallel with the Transportation of U.S.
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92 produce national- and state-level estimates of the total number of trucks. VIUS captured private and commercial U.S.
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93 B.21.2.2 What Auditing Procedures Are Used? The detailed methodology for the construction of the survey and the sample are available here at http://www.census.
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94 In recent years, virtual WIM sites have begun to be installed. Virtual WIM couples the WIM sensor and hardware with a camera to capture license plate numbers and visual images of the trucks passing the stations.
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95 Transportation Characteristics Branch, April 2006, http://www. census.gov/svsd/www/vius/products.html.
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Abbreviations and acronyms used without definitions in TRB publications: A4A Airlines for America AAAE American Association of Airport Executives AASHO American Association of State Highway Officials AASHTO American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials ACI–NA Airports Council International–North America ACRP Airport Cooperative Research Program ADA Americans with Disabilities Act APTA American Public Transportation Association ASCE American Society of Civil Engineers ASME American Society of Mechanical Engineers ASTM American Society for Testing and Materials ATA American Trucking Associations CTAA Community Transportation Association of America CTBSSP Commercial Truck and Bus Safety Synthesis Program DHS Department of Homeland Security DOE Department of Energy EPA Environmental Protection Agency FAA Federal Aviation Administration FHWA Federal Highway Administration FMCSA Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration FRA Federal Railroad Administration FTA Federal Transit Administration HMCRP Hazardous Materials Cooperative Research Program IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers ISTEA Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 ITE Institute of Transportation Engineers MAP-21 Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act (2012) NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASAO National Association of State Aviation Officials NCFRP National Cooperative Freight Research Program NCHRP National Cooperative Highway Research Program NHTSA National Highway Traffic Safety Administration NTSB National Transportation Safety Board PHMSA Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration RITA Research and Innovative Technology Administration SAE Society of Automotive Engineers SAFETEA-LU Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (2005)
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