Freight Reports
Once the Freight Analysis has finished running, you will be left at the Summary Results screen. Press the Freight tab to view your freight results.
The reports are available for both Transearch-enabled and vFreight-enhanced licenses, though the modes reported on will differ.
Freight Summary
This report is a summary of the total commodity flows by tons or value, depending upon which subtab is selected. Only the years selected on the settings page show values, so if more details are needed, you will need to rerun the freight analysis from the settings screen.
Clicking on a bar in the graph will bring up a popup window with a line graph showing the composition of freight flows in either tons or value as selected using the tab. Flows are shown as total, inbound (coming into the study region), outbound (exported from the region), internal (origin and destination within the study region), and through (origin and destination are external to the study region). This data is provided in both graphical and tabular formats both allowing for the export of the data.
In a similar manner, if you hover over a data point on a line, you will see the value at that point. Clicking on the data point brings up another popup with the commodity details in both tabular and graphical formats.
Flow by Mode Report
The Flow by Mode report presents by mode, the tons of goods, dollar value of those goods, or the number of vehicles used to transport those goods, by year and also flow type (inbound, outbound, etc.).
Mode-Commodity Mix Report
The Mode-Commodity Mix report presents by mode, the tons of goods, dollar value of those goods, or the number of vehicles used to transport those goods, by year along with the detail commodities transported.
Trip Lengths Report
The Trip Lengths report breaks down the distances the commodities move, again as tons of goods, value of goods, or number of vehicles moving the goods, showing the breakdown in distance ranges, average, and estimated VMT.
Top Locations Report
The Top Locations chart presents as either a bubble chart or a direction chart the relative flow of goods (as tons, value, or number vehicles) with the largest/darkest bubbles delineating the largest values and conversely the smallest/lightest bubbles representing the smallest values. The quantities to be presented are selected with the drop down menus for
- Region
- Direction (inbound/outbound, total/domestic/international)
- Commodity of interest (or all commodities)
- Number of data points to show (top 5, 10, 25 (default), 50, 75, or 100)
- Value shown (tons, value, vehicles)
- Year of interest
The map below is a representative bubble chart showing top 25 destinations the outbound domestic flow of paving or roofing materials in tons for 2018.
All Locations Report
The All Locations report provides baseline vFreight data for your study region, based on the settings you select in this tab for commodity flow direction (inbound/outbound domestic/international), commodities to view, domestic mode type, foreign mode type (for international flows), and foreign trade partner. Pressing the submit button processes this baseline data and is presented as a set of tables and maps.
Economy Relationships Report
The Economy Relationships chart shows the trend for the top 7 commodities transported by value.
Freight Dependency Report
The Freight Dependency report presents the economic impacts (output, value added, income, and jobs) by industry for the region, direction, modes, commodities, and year selected, with the option to include labor match.
