摘要: |
This interim report summarizes the findings from the first phase of the NCHRP 20-83 project. The objectives of phase 1 were to identify, categorize, and rank the driving forces and critical uncertainties that will influence the future freight transportation flows within the United States over the next 30 years. The results from phase 1 are to be used in phase 2 to help develop the set of future scenarios to utilize in the phase 3 workshops. The Future Freight Flows Symposium was held on 11-12 March 2010. The final agenda and attendance list is attached in Appendix 1. A total of sixty handpicked non-MIT professionals participated. The symposium opened with a restatement of the objective of the project as a whole and the two-day symposium in particular. Additionally, the attendees were introduced to the concept of Flow Impacts. This was done in order to get the attendees to focus specifically on how any potential force or uncertainty would impact freight flows within a specified region. For the purpose of this symposium, we focused on the United States as a whole. However, all of the analysis and methods can be used on any pre-defined region or area. |