This report presents the efforts to develop a freight data dictionary (FDD) for organizing the multiple freight data elements that are commonly used.

In 2014, TxDOT sponsored a study to integrate data from multiple sources to optimize freight transportation planning efforts in the state. The study team sought to establish data-sharing partnerships from private stakeholders and relay the lessons learned. In addition, the team developed a prototype freight data architecture with supporting descriptions and specifications.

This guidebook is both a reference manual for setting up, operating, and enhancing freight data partnerships, as well as a procedural manual to aid in developing, negotiating, and formalizing data sharing agreements.

This report explored innovative approaches to obtaining and making comprehensive truck activity data publicly available. The study identified a number of challenges with using truck activity data, including users integrating data from multiple sources to answer critical policy questions, lack of temporal coverage, excluded commodity types in the national surveys, and the level of investment required to use and visualize the data.

This report was published in 2011 and followed upon the work presented in NCFRP Report 9.

Published in 2010, this report presents requirements and specifications for a scalable national freight data architecture to link myriad existing datasets.

One of the initial efforts by a state DOTs in developing an online environment to integrate, visualize, and disseminate freight data. OFDM’s system architecture involved overlaying truck volume data, GPS data, truck generator data, amongst other datasets on a Google Maps GIS layer.

Proposed in 2003, this framework intends to guide the development of a national freight database, related data collection, and synthesis activities. This conceptual framework focused on increasing the linkages between different sources of data and fulfilling the major needs of a wide variety of users by capturing the important characteristics of freight movements (shipment

GTFS-ride is an open, fixed-route transit ridership data standard developed through a partnership between the Oregon Department of Transportation and Oregon State University. It allows for improved ridership data collection, storing, sharing, reporting, and analysis.

GTFS defines a common format for public transportation schedules and associated geographic information. GTFS "feeds" let public transit agencies publish their transit data and developers write applications that consume the data in an interoperable way. The initial and main benefit of this standard included a free online trip planner available to the public to look up transit information and plan transit trips.