FHWA Freight and Land Use Handbook
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U.S. Department of Transportation
Federal Highway Administration
Office of Freight Management and Operations
1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
Washington, DC 20590
Phone: 202-366-0408
Fax: 202-366-3225
FreightFeedback@dot.gov
http://www.ops.fhwa.dot.gov/freight/
Publication #: FHWA-HOP-12-006
![U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration.](images/usdotfhwa.jpg)
April 2012
Table of Contents
1.0 Background on Freight and Land Use
1.2 Why Should Freight be Considered in the Transportation and Land Use Planning Process?
1.3 Land Use and Transportation Planning Processes and Linkages
1.4 Public- and Private-Sector Stakeholders, Roles, and Needs
2.0 Freight as a Good Neighbor – Land Use, Transportation System, and Environmental Considerations
2.2 Appropriate and Coordinated Land Use Policies
2.3 Effective Transportation Systems and Services
3.0 Freight Land Use and Sustainability
3.2 Freight and Land Use Sustainability Issues and Implications
4.0 Accounting for the Impacts and Needs of Freight
4.2 Freight Carrier/Shipper Land Use Needs for Efficient and Safe Goods Movement
4.3 Tools and Actions to Address Freight Land Use Needs and Impacts
Appendix A Freight and Land Use Glossary
Appendix B Key Information Sources
List of Tables
1.1 Public-Sector Critical Freight and Land Use Issues
1.2 Private-Sector Critical Freight and Land Use Issues
2.1 Examples of Freight and Land Use Integration Strategies and Tools
2.2 Key Issues Illustrated within the Best Practice Review
2.3 City of Seattle Policies to Manage Urban Freight Operations
4.1 Key Issues Illustrated within the Best Practice Review
List of Figures
1.1 National Multimodal Freight Tonnage
1.2 Producer Price Index for Highway and Street Construction
1.3 A Sample Land Use Plan Showing Proposed Land Use Designations and Locations
1.5 The Transportation Planning Process
1.6 Transportation Planning Factors and Relationship to Freight or Land Use
1.7 The Transportation Land Use Cycle
1.8 Relationships Between Transportation and Land Use Planning Processes
1.9 State, Regional, and Local Transportation and Land Use Planning Entities
1.10 Private-Sector Freight Stakeholder Types
2.1 Creating Buffers or Separation Between Industrial Land Uses and Other Land Uses
2.2 Creating Buffers between Industrial Land Uses and Other Land Uses
2.3 Flat-lens Lighting Fixtures
2.4 Residential Development Adjacent to Freight-Generating Land Use
2.5 Chicago’s Designated Industrial Corridors and Planned Manufacturing Districts
2.6 Geographic Distribution of Warehousing/ Distribution Centers in the Atlanta Region
3.1 Relationship of the Three Dimensions of Sustainability
3.2 U.S. Transportation-Sector GHG Emissions by Mode
3.3 Impact of Sea-Level Rise and Storm Surge on Rail Facilities in the Gulf Coast Region
4.1 Managed Curbside Loading Zone in New York City
4.2 Minimum Turning Radius Requirement for Interstate Semitrailers
4.3 When Truck and Rail Access Are Not Separated, Inefficiencies Can Impact Operations
4.4 The C-TIP Public Private Partnership Goal
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