The TREDIS FREIGHT module provides State DOTs, MPOs and transportation organizations with unsurpassed analysis capabilities that support freight planning, strategy development, project prioritization, economic impact assessment, and benefit-cost evaluation as well as meeting a number of other Federal requirements.
These capabilities are enabled by a clearly laid-out framework that (a) brings together available transportation, economic and trade data, and (b) integrates industry, commodity and modal perspectives. TREDIS provides these capabilities in a fully integrated package, or it can be adapted to use (or work with) an agency’s own transportation data, economic data, and models (including Global Insight, Moody’s, REMI, IMPLAN) and freight/trade databases (including Transearch® and vFreightTM). It can be used in different ways for corridor, project or area-level studies.
TREDIS Fueled by Transearch® - Corridor Analysis
Select a highway or rail corridor, and then:
- Profile freight flows using the corridor.*
- Assess its national and regional significance.
- Identify area industries and supply chain components that depend on the selected corridor.
- Calculate how forecasted economic changes will change future freight activity levels.
- Use this information to assess implications for strategies, investment programs, or system budgets and plans.
Define a highway, rail, air or marine project, and then:
- Profile the affected freight flows and associated economic activities dependent on the project.*
- Assess the economic importance of the project’s impact on that freight movement.
- Identify industries and supply chain components that will benefit from the project.
- Calculate impacts on facility use, user benefit-cost and wider economic impacts.
- Use this information to assess implications for project priorities and selection.
Select a broad State, Metro or County-based Region, and then:
- Profile the area’s pattern of freight flows.*
- Assess the supply chain roles of those freight flows.
- Identify the area’s economic dependencies on those supply chain roles.
- Calculate how emerging economic trends will change future freight flows.
- Use this information to assess implications for future freight or economic development strategies.
*Profiles cover freight volume (tonnage, number of vehicles), economic value, mode, origin-destination, commodity mix and/or affected industries.
vFreighttm - Visualizing County-Level Freight Flows
vFreight is an information dataset developed by EDR Group that can be used with TREDIS.
Key Features:
- Provides easy, intuitive, and visually supported access to detailed commodity flow data.
- Shows county-to-county flows by 2 or 3 digit SCTG level.
- Provides domestic mode for each commodity type.
- Provides international mode for each traded commodity.
- Shows location of county for 219 port of entry (imports) and port of exit (exports) for all traded commodities.
- Provides county-level trade (exports/imports) for 18 countries.
- “Cloud-based” structure provides “instant” access anywhere internet is available.
Applications:
- Demonstrates national and international linkages for domestic freight movements.
- Identifies key ports of entry/exit for traded commodities.
- Supports freight analysis at levels of geographic detail consistent with federal, statewide, and regional planning.
- Provides effective ways of graphically sharing trade and commodity flow data with policymakers and the public.
- Facilitates economic development strategies relating to trade partners, import substitution and export growth.
For vFreight information and login, Click here. Download vFreight datasheet.
Custom Add-ons:
Alternative Scenario and Trade Corridor Access
TREDIS allows for a growing number of add-on modules that address commodity flow and freight economics, which are developed on a custom basis for clients. They include:
TREDPLAN Scenario Insights:
- Derive planning insights independent of economic impact analysis using detailed TREDIS economic-demographic-commodity forecasting data.
- Evaluate the implication of alternative global economic scenarios, covering energy costs, transportation costs, exchange rates, modal technologies, etc.
- Examine implications for growth shifts in industries, spatial shifts in trade corridor patterns, operational efficiency, and supply chain productivity.
- Assess implications for the future competitive positioning of industries and locations.
Commercial Corridor Productivity Analysis:
- Expands the TREDIS productivity analysis (from market scale and intermodal connectivity) to also track how changes in performance of individual commerce corridors shift supply chain productivity.
- Builds on detailed supply chain back-tracing to derive productivity changes by industry and location.
- Builds on detailed origin-destination and inter-industry commodity trade movements, as well as operational efficiency metrics in the TREDIS database.
- Uses customized market access, performance, and productivity elasticity factors extracted from detailed statistical analysis that is customized for each study.
- Used with TREDIS to identify which industries will become competitive as a result of corridor improvements.
For more information, contact TREDIS Software at 617-303-0424.