Integrating Freight Movement into Twenty-First-Century Communities' Land Use, Design, and Transportation Systems

The efficient movement of freight is the foundation of our communities and economy. Disruptions to the movement of goods can have substantial economic and quality of life effects. At the same time, public sector planners and officials desire a clearer understanding of how goods movement benefits communities through job creation, tax revenues, and other benefits, while balancing the potential environmental and/or community disbenefits.

NCHRP Web-Only Document 373: Integrating Freight Movement into Twenty-First-Century Communities' Land Use, Design, and Transportation Systems, from TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program, develops a planning toolkit for public-sector decision-makers to better integrate freight and goods movement into the planning process for land use, design, and multimodal transportation systems.

Supplemental to the report is a Freight Planning Toolkit dataset.