Land-use planning and policymaking is central to how communities manage their economic activity the social environmental impacts these activities produce. Because of this role, enhancing land-use practices better incorporate needs freight has strong potential improve efficiency associated supply chains. This paper summarizes key findings NCFRP 08-111 project on “Freight-Efficient Land Uses (FEL...

cities are a focal point of energy consumption. accessibility to public services has a significant impact on the balance of public and private energy uses, which are two sectors that are directly affected by urban planning (the third is industrial). this paper establishes the relative magnitudes of service accessibility enhancement on urban energy efficiency in comparison to other factors, and ...

Using Louisiana’s Interstate system, this paper aims to demonstrate how data can be used evaluate freight movement reliability, economy, and safety of truck operations improve decision-making. Data mainly from the National Performance Management Research Set (NPMRDS) Louisiana Crash Database were analyze Truck Travel Time Reliability Index, commercial vehicle User Delay Costs, safety. The resul...

Freight demand is a highly variable process over economic and industrial structure, accurate freight forecasting the basis of transportation planning. In order to clarify influencing factors volume so as analyze predict change trend accurately, this paper analyzes impact changes in economic, complete consumption coefficients on demand, through constructing an input-output model for value analys...

The paper presents a planning process, a decision support system and an optimization model designed for the tactical planning of transportation by a logistics service provider (LSP) for customers from the automotive industry focusing on the primary target of sustainable transportation. Therefore a rolling to-be planning process has been designed which covers the planning activities for differen...