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"This report presents a comprehensive, objective, and consistent set of measures to gauge the performance of the freight transportation system. These measures are presented in the form of a Freight System Report Card, which reports information in three formats, each increasingly detailed, to serve the needs of a wide variety of users from decision makers at all levels to anyone interested in assessing the performance of the nation's freight transportation system."--Pub. desc.
Federal and state transportation planning and policy has begun to focus on highway performance measurement, balancing goals, performance measures and measurement. The push toward performance measurement first focused on passenger vehicles, largely ignoring the measurement of freight-related (truck) performance. The period since 2000 has seen a handful of DOTs examining broad indicators of efficient freight movement, but as of yet, there was no definitive work in the area until a 2003 FHWA funded project began to look into various freight tracking technologies to develop freight performance measures (FPMs), finally selecting a GPS technology widely adopted by U.S motor carriers. At the time of this study report, the FHWA study worked on data manipulation and graphical representation of highway speeds, but has yet to use the data for alternative performance measures or examine the possibility of using the truck respondents as probe vehicles for real-time ITS applications. The purpose of this report is to develop a set of universal FPMs, as well as looking into various applications, both real-time and long-term planning, for the truck GPS data collected as part of the FHWA study.
This primer aims to assist States and MPOs with the implementation of performance-based freight planning and programming, as established under MAP-21 and the FAST Acts, by recommending freight performance measurement practices and appropriate performance measures. The primer provides a comprehensive list of freight performance measures with their availability and degree of manipulation needed. It includes chapters on data collection, data analysis, target setting, identifying challenges, best practices, and possible solutions.
Master's Thesis from the year 2016 in the subject Business economics - Supply, Production, Logistics, grade: 1, Vienna University of Economics and Business (Informationsverarbeitung & Prozessmanagement), language: English, abstract: Changing economic conditions and increasing competition forced many companies to extend their supply, production and distribution networks towards global approaches. This led to an increase in the importance of freight transport. In consequence, freight carriers are currently required to provide either cost or time efficient solutions to a wide range of industries. In order to select appropriate modes of transport or suitable carriers, enterprises must consider their performance beforehand. Moreover, carriers must be precisely aware of their own performance at any time. Consequently, performance measurement and the definition of suitable performance metrics plays an essential role in freight transport. In practice, companies have to face an extensive variety of indicators that can be used to assess performance in freight transport. Studies prove that there is lack of consistency in the usage of metrics. At the same time, researchers have to cope with wide range of available literature that discusses performance evaluation in freight transportation which is, though, often limited to specific areas of application. In this thesis a structured literature review (SLR) is carried out which has the objective to systematically find out how companies measure performance in intermodal, road, rail, air, and maritime freight transport. The conceptual findings of this SLR provide a list of 1742 metrics from the literature that can either be applied for one or several modes of freight transport. In addition, 47 different ways how KPIs can be classified are identified. The SLR proves that operational performance indicators mainly regard time, distance and available equipment. Strategic metrics focus on costs levels, the change of costs over time, ra
Development of freight performance measures and indicators is intended to assist the Office of Freight and Commercial Vehicle Operations (OFCVO) of Minnesota Department of Transportation (Mn/DOT) in responding to key stakeholders in the public and private sectors regarding the performance of Minnesota's freight transportation system and in assisting Mn/DOT's long-range planning efforts such as the update of Mn/DOT's Statewide Transportation Plan and its Statewide Freight Plan. Freight measurement sources (data and information sources) were compiled, analyzed, organized, and classified for all modes of transportation and different performance measure and indicator categories. The classification of measurement sources was done for performance measure and indicator categories pertaining to network and infrastructure, safety or damage, access, capacity, travel time, reliability, market share, mode share, modal costs, freight productivity, freight security, shipping rates, pricing, agency cost, carrier cost, shipper cost, externalities and community cost, transportation indices, and external factors related to or affecting freight movements within, through, out of, and into Minnesota. Assessment of key performance measures and indicators, and related measurement sources was carried out. Barriers, best available measurement sources, good existing practices, and recommended improvements pertaining to measurement sources for freight performance measures and indicators for Minnesota were identified.