Table of Contents

• 1. Introduction
  • 1.1 Importance of Freight Planning
    • 1.1.1 Freight Safety and Wind Vulnerability
    • 1.1.2 Identification of Critical Infrastructure
  • 1.2 Project Objectives
    • 1.2.1 General Understanding of Wyoming Freight Movement
    • 1.2.2 Freight Safety and Wind Vulnerability Objectives
    • 1.2.3 Identification of Critical Infrastructure Objectives
• 2. Literature Review
  • 2.1 Freight Planning in General
  • 2.2 Freight Safety
    • 2.2.1 General Background
    • 2.2.2 Methods of Analyses
    • 2.2.3 Freight Safety and Wind Vulnerability
  • 2.3 Identification of Critical Infrastructure
    • 2.3.1 Definition of Critical Infrastructure
    • 2.3.2 Importance of Critical Infrastructure Identification
  • 2.4 Methodologies for Identifying Critical Infrastructure
• 3. Background
  • 3.1 Description of Freight Network
    • 3.1.1 Highway
    • 3.1.2 Rail
    • 3.1.3 Other (Air/Water/Pipeline)
  • 3.2 Commodities Moved in Wyoming
    • 3.2.1 Commodities Moved To, From, and Within the State
    • 3.2.2 Commodities Moved Through the State
  • 3.3 Freight-Planning Efforts in Adjoining States
    • 3.3.1 Colorado
    • 3.3.2 Utah
    • 3.3.3 Idaho
    • 3.3.4 Montana
    • 3.3.5 South Dakota
    • 3.3.6 Nebraska
• 4. Data Sources
  • 4.1 Federal Data Sources
    • 4.1.1 Commodity Flow Survey
    • 4.1.2 Vehicle Inventory and Use Survey
    • 4.1.3 Carload Waybill Sample
    • 4.1.4 Transborder Surface Freight Data
  • 4.2 State Data Sources
    • 4.2.1 Wyoming Geographic Information Science Center
    • 4.2.2 Wyoming State Geological Survey
    • 4.2.3 Wyoming Department of Transportation
    • 4.2.4 Wyoming Department of Revenue
    • 4.2.5 Wyoming State Climatologist Office
  • 4.3 Private Data Sources
    • 4.3.1 Altamont Press
    • 4.3.2 Transsearch Freight Market Data
• 5. Freight Forecasts
  • 5.1 Introduction
  • 5.2 National Freight Forecasts
  • 5.3 Wyoming Freight Forecasts
• 6. Freight Crash Analysis and Wind Vulnerability
  • 6.1 Introduction
  • 6.2 Data
    • 6.2.1 Crash Data
    • 6.2.2 Highway Route Referencing
    • 6.2.3 Volume data
    • 6.2.4 Wind data
    • 6.2.5 Other
  • 6.3 Freight Crash Analysis Methodology
    • 6.3.1 Grid Analysis
    • 6.3.2 Sliding Scale Analysis
    • 6.3.3 Advanced Grid Analysis
    • 6.3.4 Wind Speed Correlation Analysis
  • 6.4 Results
    • 6.4.1 Advanced Grid Analysis Results
    • 6.4.2 Wind Correlation Results
  • 6.5 Future Work
• 7. Critical Infrastructure
  • 7.1 Introduction
  • 7.2 Methodology
  • 7.3 Results
  • 7.4 Future Work
• 8. Results and Conclusions
  • 8.1 Summary of Research Results
  • 8.2 Phase II Research
• References

Wyoming Freight Movement and Wind Vulnerability

Rhonda Young
Joel Liesman
David Lucke
Shane Schieck

Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering
University of Wyoming
1000 E. University Way
Laramie, Wyoming 82071

June 2005

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