Product No.: 00013
Date Published: 06/2000
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A synthesis effort to inventory truck trip generation studies is currently being conducted on a national level to standardize data collection efforts and serve as an endorsed source for truck trip generation information. The need stems from a recognition of the crucial importance that freight movement plays in the national economy and the absence of reliable information to understand and plan for its travel needs. Locally, recent efforts to assist the Delaware Valley Goods Movement Task Force and related goods movement network planning have also indicated a need for estimating truck travel demands. In this study, DVRPC has gathered data, performed statistical analyses, and identified formulae and rates for estimating daily truck trips at port and rail terminal facilities in the region using data supplied by facility owners / operators. The findings and results of the work will be put into practice within DVRPC's Urban Goods Movement Planning Program, and this report will be distributed to the local freight community and to those conducting national-level truck trip generation studies to assist in meeting their needs. The work was conducted through DVRPC's Intermodal Management System (IMS) Planning Program. The IMS was one of the six management systems created by ISTEA in 1991, and is carried on through the auspices of the region's current long range plan.Geographic Area Covered: nine county Philadelphia metropolitan area, including: Burlington, Camden, Gloucester and Mercer counties in New Jersey, and; Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery and Philadelphia counties in Pennsylvania
Key Words: Management Systems, goods movement, intermodal freight facilities, rail / truck terminals, ports, truck trip generation, regression analyses, trip rates
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