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Freight Systems 2009

Last Modified Date: 9/2/2009

TRB’s Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2097 includes 15 papers that explore backhaul opportunities using telematics data, transport impacts of collection and delivery points, freight transportation system resilience, time-dependent demand for truck parking facilities along a federal highway, and exposure-based charging for long multiple trailer truck permits. This issue of the TRR also examines microsimulation of off-hour delivery policies in urban areas, freight generation models, scheduling of cranes in port container terminals, the impact of land bridges on port market areas, free trade agreement effects in the Mediterranean region, impacts of intermodal terminals on the highway system, minimizing disruption due to increased security inspection of containers at intermodal terminals, improving the safety of dangerous goods transport, and risk analyses of hazardous materials transportation by railroad.

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