National Freight Performance Measures
The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Highway Administration has published performance measures to assess system performance, freight movement, and the CMAQ program. The regulation calls for an increased level of transparency and accountability in establishing and achieving targets for performance impacting commuters and truck drivers.
For more information, please visit FHWA’s Office of Transportation Performance Management at the following link: https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/tpm/rule.cfm
The FHWA Office of Freight Management and Operations and other stakeholders are developing performance measures for freight transportation. Freight-specific performance measures help to identify needed transportation improvements and monitor their effectiveness. They also serve as indicators of economic health and traffic congestion.
Freight Performance Measurement at FHWA
- Truck Freight Bottleneck Reporting Guidebook
- Freight Performance Measure Primer
- Measuring the Impacts of Freight Transportation Improvements on the Economy and Competitiveness
- Freight Performance Measure Approaches for Bottlenecks, Arterials, and Linking Volumes to Congestion Report
- Border Crossing Delay
- Travel Time in Freight Significant Corridors
Urban Goods Movement
The efficient flow of goods is critical to the economic well-being of the United States. As demand for freight transportation continues to rise at a disproportionate rate to freight system capacity, shippers and carriers must find new ways to navigate through urban areas and deliver goods on time and at low cost. Local land use and zoning requirements, as well as restrictions on delivery time and routes are impediments to urban goods movement. However many cities are coming up with innovative solutions to urban goods movement issues and are sharing these solutions through case studies and other available resources.
Freight Noteworthy Practices
- Urban Freight Noteworthy Practices
- Commercial Loading Zone Management Program: Washington, D.C. [HTML, PDF 293KB]
- In-the-Field Safety Training for City Truck Drivers in London, England [HTML, PDF 373KB]
- Regional Coordination for Truck Network Efficiency: New York, NY [HTML, PDF 359KB]
- Truck Driver Training for Safe Urban Operations in San Francisco, CA [HTML, PDF 637KB]
- Truck Side Guard Ordinance: Boston, MA [HTML, PDF 405KB]
- Urban Freight Integration with Protected Bike Lanes | Chicago, IL [HTML, PDF 1.1MB]
- Virtual Weigh Stations and Weigh-in-Motion (WIM) Technology in Maryland and New York [HTML, PDF 311KB]
Travel Time in Freight Significant Corridors
FHWA studies truck travel times in freight-significant corridors to measure the performance of the freight transportation system. Truck travel times indicate how well the intercity highway network is being used to calibrate network assignment models and to understand activity by time of day.
- Freight Performance Measurement: Travel Time in Freight-Significant Corridors [HTML, PDF 2.8MB]
- Measuring Travel Time in Freight-Significant Corridors [HTML, PDF 133KB]
- Freight Congestion
- Urban Goods Movement
