Providing the evidence base for informed freight transport decision-making

Commercial organisations that invest in freight infrastructure and equipment need to understand how market forces and the policy environment could affect the future of freight transport. Access to detailed and robust freight transport data, forecasting and modelling is key to these organisations’ decision-making.

  • Benefits of freight transport data & modelling

    Freight data and modelling services can be used to support:
    • Projects – Supporting business cases for new transport infrastructure
    • Planning - Providing robust evidence for strategies and planning applications
    • Forecasting & modelling - Quantifying future freight activity
    • Carbon accounting - Measuring the impact of freight movements
    • Corporate governance – Providing robust evidence for management and shareholders

  • Benefits of the Freight Data Hub

    • Free data - available by local authority area
    • Highly detailed origin-destination data
    • Multimodal data - HGVs, LGVs, road, rail & ferries
    • International & domestic data – trade vital for an island economy
    • Freight forecasting & modelling – using state of the art GB Freight Model
    • Robust – quality-assured data
    • Experience – decades of sectoral expertise from MDS Transmodal