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Forecasting Metropolitan Commercial and Freight Travel


TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Synthesis 384: Forecasting Metropolitan Commercial and Freight Travel explores methods of freight and commercial vehicle forecasting currently in professional practice, along with promising methods emerging from ongoing research.  The primary focus of the report is on metropolitan-level forecasting, although some consideration is given to statewide freight models.




Date Posted: 01/16/2009

Type: Recently Released TRB Publications

Subjects: Freight, Planning
TRB Publication: NCHRP Synthesis Report #384
Project: NCHRP Synthesis20-05/Topic 38-07
TRT Terms: commercial vehicle operations, Forecasting, Freight transportation, Interviewing, Literature reviews, Metropolitan areas, Metropolitan planning organizations, Surveys
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