Current ICT Project
Investigators:
  Jon Devries (Primary), K. Nance
Project Title:
  Regional Warehouse Trip Production
Start Date: 1/1/2007
End Date: 7/31/2008
Summary of Project:
  Recent advances in intermodalism, the connections between various modes of transportation, have resulted in quantum leaps in transportation, logistics, and warehousing. As a result, it is common to have million square feet warehouses, intermodal rail facilities capable of handling one million lifts of a container or trailer annually, and 8,000-ft-long trains of 400 containers. The Chicago-area has embraced these advances to become an intermodal “epicenter” and consequently could be considered one of the largest “ports” in the world. These developments attract and produce truck activity, and the “center of gravity” of this ecosystem is inexorably centrifuging to other communities. To gain insight into these activities, ICT sponsors research that includes surveying truck traffic and production at large warehouses in Northeast Illinois.
Objective of Project:
  The ICT is illustrating the array of distribution activities, supportive truck movements, and meaningful ratios of truck traffic related to business and building profile factors. This allows for estimating truck movement and growth relative to new distribution space being added in the Chicago area.
Expected Outcome:
  This study will assist national agencies in determining the demand freight transportation has on infrastructure, forecasting travel activity, and anticipating needs for additional transportation assets.
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Last Updated: 11/18/2009