E-C158 Cover1 - Center for Transportation Analysis - Oak Ridge ...

CONTENT AND USES
Questions and Comments from
Individual Participants at the Opening Session
• The Census, as part of the Economic Survey and the Business Survey, is subject to
both Title 13 and Title 26 provisions.
• The parcel sector generates large traffic activity in the urban area, which may not
necessarily be accurately captured in the CFS as it is considered mail in the CFS.
• The CFS approach assumes that shippers know more about the total origin and
destination of the shipment than the carrier.
• Shippers may understand the mode due to the nature of intermediary relationships.
• How does the budget influence the sample size in 2012?
SCOPE, CLASSIFICATION, AND GEOGRAPHY
• Truck trip generation tables may be useful for certain types of applications.
• Some information about the type of establishment either being surveyed or receiving
the cargo would be useful.
PRODUCT TOOLS AND FUNCTIONALITY
• Some other data collection or surveys may be able to supplement some of the gaps in
the CFS in areas outside the current CFS scope.
• A mechanism for local groups who want to increase their local CFS dataset by
supplementing the survey, financially or in kind, would be useful.
• The link between the FAF and CFS sometimes blurs the discussion about the value of
the two datasets.
• The CFS cannot be all things, but can be better at the things it does.
• Access or analysis of the microdata would enhance CFS usefulness.
USE AND USERS
• Since no formal requirement for feedback regarding the CFS exists, users can simply
contact CFS staff with additional comments or suggestions.
• Emerging trends in data needs could be identified if a mechanism to collect at the
requests from the user community existed.
• While the freight data and modeling world would suffer from a loss of the CFS,
clarification about who are the real users of the CFS would make demonstrating value easier. It
serves as a federal, state, and local dataset, research, and other users
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