What is FMIP?

The Freight Model Improvement Program is a collaborative effort of the transportation research community, technology vendors, consultants, and public agencies to improve the state-of-the-art and the state-of-the-practice in freight-demand models and their application to transportation policy and planning in federal, state, and local governments.

Freight Model Improvement Program

What's New

Freight Demand Modeling: A Conference on Tools for Public-Sector Decision Making, September 25–27, 2006 – 10/3/06 (TRB Technical Activities e-Sessions now available)

Freight Analysis Framework ² (FAF²): User Guide – 9/1/06

Freight Analysis Framework ² (FAF²) Estimates for 2002 – 9/1/06

Commodity Flow Survey (CFS) Conference Presentations – 9/1/06

Key Elements of This Web Site

About describes the goals of the Freight Model Improvement Program (FMIP), its relationship to the Freight Analysis Framework, and plans for future activities.

News provides information on upcoming conferences/other events and features noteworthy models, analytical techniques, and data collection activities newly posted on this Web site.

Models includes descriptions of freight-demand models; applications of freight models to national, state, and local studies, and a bibliography of articles and reports related to freight models.

Data identifies national datasets and state and local efforts to collect freight data.

Contacts provides FMIP contacts, suggests ways to share material and comments through this Web site, and lists related Web sites.

This Web site is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Transportation, the U.S. Department of Energy, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.The Office of Freight Management and Operations in the Federal Highway Administration manages the site.