Over the last decade, the incorporation of freight issues into the transportation planning activities of state departments of transportation and metropolitan planning organizations has received significant focus. Much of this focus has been on integrating freight into the planning portion of the project delivery process. Although most states and Metropolitan Planning Organizations MPOs have successfully incorporated freight issues into long-range planning activities, fewer have fully integrated freight throughout the entire transportation planning, programming, and project development process. This Guidebook contains information on freight planning, but also significantly extends the transportation profession’s knowledge of incorporating freight throughout the program development and implementation stages, from needs identification to project delivery. This Guidebook with be useful to both advanced and novice freight practitioners. (Author/publisher) This report may be accessed by Internet users at http://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/nchrp/nchrp_rpt_594.pdf
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