Congestion is a growing concern among those professionals tasked with managing traffic flows and air quality. Congestion is also a growing concern for the trucking industry, which is tasked with delivering goods to retailers, manufacturers and service providers across the country. Congestion is costly for both the public and private sectors due to traffic delays, fuel consumption, pavement and bridge damage, and environmental concerns such as air and noise pollution. Policymakers, planners and motor carriers must make decisions on how to best manage limited capacity to optimize the performance of goods movement on the road system. However, it can be difficult to predict the impact of different decisions on the actual performance of the network. To aid decision makers in this process, the American Transportation Research Institute has developed a freight capacity model which is able to estimate the likely financial, environmental and performance-related impacts of different planning decisions for both motor carriers and public sector planners.
Developing a Freight Capacity Model for Land Use Planning and Air Quality Impact Analysis
Transportation Land Use, Planning, and Air Quality Congress 2007 ; 2007 ; Orlando, Florida, United States
2008-05-15
Conference paper
Electronic Resource
English
Developing a Freight Capacity Model for Land Use Planning and Air Quality Impact Analysis
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