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Performance Metrics Used by Freight Transport Providers

项目名称：	Performance Metrics Used by Freight Transport Providers
摘要：	The newly-established National Cooperative Freight Research Program (NCFRP) has allocated funding to a project entitled "Performance Metrics for Freight Transportation Productivity." According to the project's background discussion, "public and private decisions related to the freight industry should be based on a thorough analysis of the impacts of those decisions. These analyses are routinely made in the private sector but less commonly in the public sector. As the demand for freight movements outstrips the capacity of the nation's highway, rail, waterway, air, and port systems, the effects are felt as congestion, upward pressure on freight prices, and longer and less reliable transit times. These indicators of distress in the freight transportation system result in increased supply costs for manufacturers, higher import prices, and higher inventory levels. Ultimately, these costs add up to a higher cost of doing business for firms, a higher cost of living for consumers, and a less productive and competitive economy. Such indicators need to be quantified to be useful to decision makers as well as for public education on freight issues. Establishing consistent performance metrics for the freight system will be very helpful in conducting and comparing analyses of the freight system, particularly by identifying the critical data that are needed to assess system performance."
状态：	Completed
资金：	4893.00
资助组织：	Research and Innovative Technology Administration<==>California Department of Transportation
项目负责人：	Thornton, Rusty
执行机构：	California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
开始时间：	20070601
实际结束时间：	20080531
主题领域：	Data and Information Technology；Freight Transportation