Truck Travel Surveys: A Review of the Literature and State-of-the-Art

00759987https://doi.org/10.21949/14046421995PDFTech ReportTravel demandTruck trafficTravel surveysLiterature reviewsLau, Samuel W.California. Metropolitan Transportation CommissionNTL-FREIGHT-Trucking IndustryUS Transportation CollectionThis paper presents the literature on conducting truck travel surveys in the U.S. and abroad. It includes past experiences, as well as current practices inconducting truck surveys. The primary purpose of this paper is to presentcompiled information on truck surveys and truck travel demand forecastingexperiences to the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) to help evaluatethe need for new truck/freight planning tools. The paper reports truck/freightsurvey experiences from Councils of Government (COGs), metropolitan planningorganizations (MPOs), for which MTC is one, and other state and regionaltransportation planning agencies, both inside and outside of the country. Thepaper does not attempt to review literature on freight mode-choice surveysand/or modeling efforts (competition between rail and truck, for example).84