C-TIER to conduct a National Study to Understand Truck Movements and Performance Measures

For use as a comprehensive set of transportation statistics on the performance and impacts on the national transportation system

Center for Transportation Innovations Education and Research (C-TIER) is awarded a project from American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI) and Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) to establish and maintain a continuous, national-scale data collection and cloud-based database archive of unimputed heavy-duty freight truck vehicle trajectory data points—alongside a set of tools that operationalize state-of-the-art algorithms and methodologies for converting trajectory data points into meaningful, transportation-oriented outputs—for use as a comprehensive set of transportation statistics on the performance and impacts on the national transportation system.

Dr. Mihalis Golias and Dr. Sabya Mishra, principal investigators of this project, have extensive experience in analyzing truck GPS data and obtaining performance measures such as travel times, flows, queue, speed, tours, parking, and trip purposes which are meaningful in freight transportation planning, Freight Performance Measures (FPM) program and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics’ current Freight Mobility Initiative (FMI).

The data and tools developed as part of this project will be used to understanding the extent and use of the Nation’s transportation network, the performance and impacts of the U.S. transportation system, and the flows of goods, and vehicles over the transportation network. These data may also be used to understand the social, economic, and environmental conditions and relationships that affect or are affected by the transportation networks.

For questions and comments, please contact Dr. Sabya Mishra at smishra3@memphis.edu.