Development of Performance Measurement for Freight Transportation.

摘要

In this project, the researchers built a set of performance measures that are unified, user-oriented, scalable, systematic, effective, and calculable for intermodal freight management and developed methodologies to calculate and use the measures. The following measures for freight transportation systems are suggested to address the needs of transportation users. (1) Mobility: Reducing transportation time and delay is a major concern of most transportation users. (2) Safety: The objectives related to transportation safety and security includes improving traffic safety, i.e., reducing traffic accident rates, injuries, fatalities, and risks. They also include increasing traffic security and reducing crime rates, improving accident detection and response, and increasing public and homeland security. (3) Environmental Stewardship: The objectives include reducing the amount of transportation-related pollutants, promoting the community livability near major transportation infrastructures, and decreasing energy consumption. (4) Direct Cost Efficiency: The objectives include developing cost-efficient transportation systems that have low cost/benefit ratios and high sustainability. (5) Economic Growth: The objectives include promoting local or regional economic growth and increasing local or regional employment opportunities. There are two major outcomes from this project: (1) An intermodal performance measurement system for freight management, including metrics definition, calculation procedure, and methodologies of data collection. (2) A case study that demonstrates how to apply the proposed performance measurement system to evaluate the Louisiana intermodal network for freight management.