Developing Freight Analysis Zones at a State Level: A Cluster Analysis Approach

Authors

  • Gregory A. Harris
  • Michael D. Anderson
  • Phillip A. Farrington
  • Niles C. Schoening
  • James J. Swain
  • Nitin S. Sharma

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5399/osu/jtrf.49.1.2521

Abstract

The ability to forecast freight to support transportation infrastructure decisions is limited by data availability at a level of detail meaningful to the transportation planner. The Freight Analysis Framework Version 2 is a national, comprehensive public freight database. The difficulty that transportation planners encounter when using this data is due to extensive aggregation. In this paper, the authors develop a methodology for creating freight analysis zones (FAZs) at a sub-state level by partitioning a state into meaningful zones that support freight transportation planning and analysis. The authors concl

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2012-08-20

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