Freight Trip Generation and Land Use

FREIGHT TRIP GENERATION AND LAND USE DRAFT FINAL REPORT Presented to the NATIONAL COOPERATIVE FREIGHT RESEARCH PROGRAM (NCFRP) NATIONAL COOPERATIVE HIGHWAY RESEARCH PROGRAM (NCHRP) on Project NCFRP 25 Freight Trip Generation and Land Use (Jointly funded as NCHRP Project 08-80) LIMITED USE DOCUMENT This Final Report is furnished only for review by members of the NCFRP project panel and is regarded as fully privileged. Dissemination of information included herein must be approved by the NCFRP. ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF SPONSORSHIP This work was sponsored by the National Cooperative Freight Research Program, and the National Cooperative Highway Research Program. DISCLAIMER This is an uncorrected draft as submitted by the research team. The opinions and conclusions expressed or implied in the material are those of the research agency. They are not necessarily those of the Transportation Research Board, the National Academies, or the program sponsors. NCFRP Project 25 (Jointly funded as NCHRP Project 08-80) Freight Trip Generation and Land Use Final Report Submitted to the National Cooperative Freight Research Program and the National Cooperative Highway Research Program by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute University at Albany TNO Delft TABLE OF CONTENTS TABLE OF CONTENTS ............................................................................................................................... i LIST OF FIGURES ...................................................................................................................................... v LIST OF TABLES ....................................................................................................................................... vi AUTHOR ACKNOWLEDGMENTS .......................................................................................................... ix ABSTRACT .................................................................................................................................................. x EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ......................................................................................................................... xi 1. INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................................................ 1 2. LAND USE CHARACTERISTICS, CLASSES, AND CONTEXTS ................................................. 3 Tax Assessor’s Classification Codes for Real Property ................................................................................ 4 Land Use Planning Classification Systems ................................................................................................... 6 Local land use inventories, zoning inventories and zoning maps ........................................................ 6 The standard land use coding manual (SLUCM) ................................................................................. 7 Land-based classification standards (LBCS) ....................................................................................... 9 Employment Categories .............................................................................................................................. 13 Standard industrial classification (SIC) codes .................................................................................... 13 North American Industry Classification System NAICS ................................................................... 15 Remote Sensing for Diagnostic Land Use Applications ............................................................................. 16 Multi-Dimensional Spatially Flexible Land Use Classification Strategy ................................................... 18 Emerging Land Use Practice of Interest to Freight Transportation Planning ............................................. 19 Boston, Massachusetts ....................................................................................................................... 19 Chicago, Illinois ................................................................................................................................. 20 Portland, Oregon ................................................................................................................................ 20 Seattle, Washington ............................................................................................................................ 21 San Francisco, California ................................................................................................................... 21 Sacramento, California ....................................................................................................................... 22 Contexts for Land Use Designations .......................................................................................................... 23 Structure type or site descriptor ......................................................................................................... 25 Employment codes ............................................................................................................................. 25 Land use zoning designations and freight .......................................................................................... 25 Remote sensing land use designations ............................................................................................... 26 Cross-walks ........................................................................................................................................ 26 Summary ..................................................................................................................................................... 26 3. THE FREIGHT SYSTEM, ITS PURPOSES, AND RELATIONs TO LAND USE ......................... 28 The Freight System ..................................................................................................................................... 29 Multiplicity of economic agents involved .......................................................................................... 29 Links between participants ................................................................................................................. 31 Partial views of the freight system ..................................................................................................... 32 Multiplicity of metrics to define and measure freight ........................................................................ 33 Modes and vehicles used .................................................................................................................... 34 Level of geography involved and functions performed ..................................................................... 37 Differences between Passenger, Freight Generation, and Freight Trip Generation .................................... 40 Attributes that influence freight trip generation ................................................................................. 41 The role of shipment size ................................................................................................................... 42 i Impacts on mode/vehicle choice ..................................................................................................... 43 Impacts on freight trip generation ................................................................................................... 43 Number of Inputs Required in Business Operations, Indivisibility of Truck Trips .................................... 46 Summary ..................................................................................................................................................... 46 4. FREIGHT TRIP GENERATION AND LAND USE ........................................................................ 48 Summary ..................................................................................................................................................... 54 5. FREIGHT TRIP GENERATION MODELS AND DATA COLLECTION...................................... 55 Freight Trip Generation (FTG) Modeling ................................................................................................... 55 Review of TRB synthesis reports ....................................................................................................... 55 Summary ............................................................................................................................................ 57 FG and FTG Modeling Practice, Evaluation Criteria and Evaluation Process ........................................... 58 Data and Surveys ........................................................................................................................................ 58 Surveys ........................................................................................................................................................ 59 6. CASE STUDIES ................................................................................................................................ 61 Description of the Datasets ......................................................................................................................... 61 A description of the various datasets follows. .................................................................................... 61 Midwestern States Furniture Chain Dataset ....................................................................................... 61 New York

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