2.3.9 Freight

TxDOT has access to Transearch, which is a tool that aggregates historical truck traffic and projects freight flows up to 30 years in the future. Freight information can be filtered by origin, destination, commodity, and transportation mode. It also has county-level freight movement data.
Transearch data is produced by IHS Markit, a company that oversees the software. To get access to the data, an IHS Markit data release form needs to be filled out and signed (see
Appendix C, Section 5 – IHS Markit Data Release Form
) and an email with the following information needs to be submitted to TPP:
  • Project title;
  • Project description;
  • TxDOT project manager;
  • Recipient company name and address; and
  • Name, title, and email address of company representative with signing authority