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The Transportation Research Board (TRB) is
organizing a two-day workshop that will bring together leading researchers and practitioners to identify data sources needed to measure the impact of freight flows on air quality. The workshop will focus on California as an example setting, but the findings about data and
issues will have widespread applicability. The workshop objectives include the following:
• Establish the context:
− Review the relationships between freight flows
and air quality across the modes.
− Identify the key air quality problems to be
illuminated with enhanced freight data.
• Assess the current state of freight data for air
quality management:
− Identify relevant data currently available, their
characteristics, architecture, and organization.
− Define core data needed to support decisions
to manage the air quality impacts of freight |
operations. What are the data elements, their
granularity, and architecture?
• Identify promising actions for securing necessary freight data for air quality management:
− Discuss new methods—technologies,
incentives, agreements—for collecting essential freight data.
− Explore data-sharing partnerships, including public–private and public–public or interagency exchanges.
− Suggest mechanisms to combine data
from different sources to enhance its value and accessibility.
• Define future research and action needs to secure the data necessary to support planning and decision making about freight impacts on air quality. |
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Who Should Attend
This workshop is designed to develop a dialogue among researchers, government officials, and private industry representatives on data sources to understand freight transportation activity and its impact on air quality. Planners, modelers, and policy makers interested in currently available freight data and in developing improved data sources should participate in this conference. Although focusing on California, the issues and approaches discussed in this meeting are or soon will be applicable throughout the country. |
