2020 Commodity Flow Survey Workshop

The Commodity Flow Survey (CFS) provides key data for many state and federal freight planning activities. The CFS is a shipper survey used to gather freight flow information including commodity shipped, origin and destination, value and weight, and mode.

TRB's Transportation Research Circular E-C269: 2020 Commodity Flow Survey Workshop summarizes a workshop that provided a platform for discussion of critical needs and uses to improve future iterations of the CFS.

Participants met over a half‐day virtual meeting to work together to identify how the CFS can be used to answer freight data questions, share information and knowledge, and highlight emerging issues surrounding freight movement.