BTS Technical Report: How Freight Moves: Estimating Mileage and Routes Using an Innovative GIS Tool
Author: Research and Innovative Technology Administration/Bureau of Transportation Statistics
Format: Print
(Soft Cover, 6 pages)
Availability: Out-of-print / Immediate download
Price: Free
Publisher: Research and Innovative Technology Administration/Bureau of Transportation Statistics
Publication Date: June 2007
Publication Number: N/A
The Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) has developed an innovative software tool, called GeoMiler, that is helping researchers better estimate freight travel. GeoMiler is being used to compute mileages along likely routes for the nearly 6 million freight shipments expected to be reported in the 2007 Commodity Flow Survey (CFS), the nation's largest survey of freight movements.
