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Freight Analysis Framework (Federal Highway Administration)

FAF integrates data from a variety of sources (including the Commodity Flow Survey) to create a comprehensive picture of freight movement among states and major metropolitan areas. The tool estimates tonnage, value, and domestic ton-miles by region of origin and destination, commodity type, and mode for current and forecasted years.

Freight Analysis Framework Website

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Freight Facts and Figures – USA

Freight Facts and Figures, developed by the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, is a collection of charts and statistical tables about freight transportation in the United States. These interactive visualizations and tables provide a snapshot of freight movement; the extent, condition, and performance of the freight transportation system; the economic implications of freight movement; and the safety, energy, and environmental impacts of freight transportation.

Freight Facts and Figures Website

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Infrastructure Condition Evaluation (ICE) Tool

A tool that aids in the evaluation of the state’s Primary Highway System by using a composite rating calculated from seven different criteria – passenger, single-unit truck, and combination truck annual average daily traffic; congestion index value, International Roughness Index; PCI; and Bridge Condition Index. While each of these individual criteria indicates a different component, the collective offers the ability to evaluate the service and structural condition of roadway segments with a single composite rating.

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Iowa Truck Information Guide

A guide to address and clarify many of the rules and regulations concerning the operation of commercial vehicles in the State of Iowa.

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Graphic comparison of truck, rail, and barge freight capacities, units, and lengths.

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Motor Carrier Service Maps

Maps of the Iowa highway system, electric company service areas, vertical clearance, bridge embargos, pavement restrictions, all systems permit county and city routes, and scale locations.

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Interactive map featuring ports, terminals, and other navigation-related information on the Upper Mississippi and Illinois Rivers. It allows users to search for intermodal access with a  certain dock type or storage options.

Navigation Assets Inventory Website

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Information and data for lock operations and navigation dredging projects.

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Website

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Rail Toolkit

A basic guide to getting and using rail services in Iowa. The document also includes profiles of all Iowa railroads.

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Railroad Maps

Maps of Iowa’s railroad system, freight service providers, traffic density/tonnage, grain loading and processing facilities, biodiesel and ethanol processing plants, chronology of abandonments, and passenger services.

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Truck Traffic Maps

Map showing the most recent Iowa truck traffic counts. 

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Waterborne Commerce Statistics Center (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers)

Information and data for vessels, tonnage, commodity, origin, and destination from vessel operating companies.

Army Corp of Engineers Website

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Wind Turbine Database (U.S. Geological Survey)

The United States Wind Turbine Database provides the locations of land-based and offshore wind turbines in the United States, corresponding wind project information, and turbine technical specifications.

Wind Turbine Database Website

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