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21st Century Operations Using 21st Century Technologies

Research, Development, and Application of Methods to Update Freight Analysis Framework Out-of-Scope Commodity Flow Data and Truck Payload Factors

List of Acronyms

AADT—annual average daily traffic

ACS—American Community Survey

AMSA—American Moving and Storage Association

BEA—U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis

BTS—Bureau of Transportation Statistics

C&D—Construction and Demolition

CAFO—concentrated animal feeding operation

CBP—County Business Patterns

CDRA—Construction and Demolition Recycling Association

CFIRE—National Center for Freight and Infrastructure Research and Education

CFS—Commodity Flow Survey

CG—Commodity Group

COE—U.S. Department of Energy

CSFFM—California Statewide Freight Forecasting Model

CTR—Center for Transportation Research

CU—Combination Unit

DOT—Department of Transportation

EIA—Energy Information Administration

ELD—Electronic Logging Device

EPA—U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

FAF—Freight Analysis Framework

FERC—Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

FHWA—Federal Highway Administration

FIA—Forest Inventory and Analysis

FIDO—Forestry Inventory Data Online

FIPS—Federal Information Processing Standards

GIS—Geographic Information System

GISPA—USDA Grain Inspection, Packers, and Stockyards Administration

GPS—global positioning system

GVW—Gross Vehicle Weight

HH&B—household and business

HS—Harmonized System codes

IPF—Iterative Proportional Fitting

IRP—International Registration Plan

LNG—liquefied natural gas

MPO—Metropolitan Planning Organization

MSW—Municipal Solid Waste

NAICS—North American Industry Classification System

NASS—USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service

NCFRP—National Cooperative Freight Research Program

NMFS—National Marine Fisheries Service

NOAA—National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

NYMTC—New York Metropolitan Transportation Council

NYSDEC—New York State Department of Environmental Conservation

O-D—origin-destination

ODCM—origin-destination commodity mode

OOS—Out-of-Scope

ORNL—Oak Ridge National Laboratory

PADD—Petroleum Administration for Defense Districts

PHMSA—Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration

PIERS—Port Import/Export Reporting Service

PUM—Public Use Microdata

RIC&P—Reinventing Conditions & Performance

SCTG—Standard Classification of Transported Goods

SU—Single Unit

TAHC—Texas Animal Health Commission

TCEQ—Texas Commission on Environmental Quality

TLMA—Texas Livestock Marketing Association

TPF—Truck Payload Factor

TPO—Timber Product Output

TSW—Truck Size and Weight

TWC—Texas Workforce Commission

USDA—United States Department of Agriculture

USDOT—U.S. Department of Transportation

VIUS—Vehicle Inventory and Use Survey

VMT—Vehicle Miles Traveled

VTRIS—Vehicle Travel Information System

WIM—Weigh in Motion