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

Integrating Data and Models for Analysis on Multimodal Transportation Systems for Florida the Apply modeling capabilities of Freight Movements on freight flow generation, distribution, modal choices, and flow assignment for Analysis of multimodal transportation network; and

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

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

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