Lehman Center for Transportation Research at Florida International University
Research at the Lehman Center

Integrating Data and Models for Multimodal Transportation Systems for Florida

  • Transportation of Design overall approaches for data and model integration;
  • Contact: Dr. Fang Zhao, 305-348-3821, zhaof@fiu.edu
    or Dr. David Shen, 305-348-1869, shenl@fiu.edu

  • of to project are to: the entire transportation system, including highways, railways, waterways, air transportation, terminals, and intermodal facilities. The specific objectives is Florida"s Strategic Intermodal System (SIS). The main objective of integrating data and models to develop approaches to facilitate freight analysis of the Freight transportation is a critical component of this project
    1. Sponsor: Florida Department
    2. Integrating Data and Models for to facilitate freight data integration from different sources;
    3. Develop approaches to construct an interconnected multimodal model network and use this model network to integrate existing freight models and formulate new models to multimodal transportation network; and
    4. developed flow data with known freight flow patterns. the Integrate existing models and develop and implement new procedures;
    5. Design and develop procedures of Freight Movements on Freight Movements
    6. Validate and verify

    to provide methodologies that are truly intermodal and multimodal. Transportation planners and decision-makers will be able to evaluate conditions and performance on use these data to identify major bottlenecks and analyze congestion and delays in that will generate freight data that have been developed at the tools and data resources that tools to already exist at FDOT, including modeling components and freight flow data developed by the FDOT System Planning Office. The ultimate goal of freight transportation under different scenarios and of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, such as analytical freight network development, freight routing, and freight flow assignment is the multimodal transportation systems. the project will utilize the To achieve these objectives, the intermodal transportation network, and the project