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FREIGHT
TRANSPORTATION
Intelligent Transportation Systems
(ITS) are becoming
increasingly important in transportation, and
particularly for the movement of freight by the trucking industry.
This chapter discusses freight transportation from a modal
perspective, looking at domestic, and when possible, international
freight movements. This approach gives a sense of the relative
use made of each different mode.
This chapter also examines freight traffic by commodity group.
Both the rail and truck modes discuss freight in terms of tonne-kilometres,
which provides a physical measure of freight movement used to
assess trends in traffic. It captures two significant dimensions
of freight traffic: volume and distance.
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