Goods movement study in Illinois : application to freight transportation and logistics.

PDFTech ReportFHWA-ICT-13-010ICT-13-010UILU-ENG-2013-2005R27-83Freight trafficMicrosimulationTravel surveysLogisticsTraffic modelsElectronic mailIllinoisIllinois. Dept. of Transportation. Bureau of Materials and Physical ResearchMohammadian, KourosSturm, KarlPourabdollahi, ZahraSamimi, AmirIllinois Center for TransportationUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dept. of Civil and Environmental EngineeringUnited States. Federal Highway AdministrationUS Transportation CollectionThis report details the results generated by a recently completed nationwide online freight establishment study.The survey was assembled with the intention of allowing the formulation or enhancement of new or existingfreight-demand microsimulation models. Within this report is an overview of the steps taken in designing andimplementing the establishment and shipment questionnaires of the freight survey. Following that is adescriptive analysis of the results of key questions posed in our survey. Over the course of the study, 966 usableestablishment surveys and 1,844 shipment forms were collected and assembled in a database, an adequatenumberfor modeling purposes