| This thesis provides resources for data collection regarding road freight transportation in the Unites States and the European Union, as well as an explanatory description of data available at each source. Afterwards, individual analysis of the current state of affairs of the highway freight transportation systems in U.S. and EU are performed. Thereafter, an explanatory and comparative analysis between the two land freight transportation systems is performed in terms of regulatory authorities and associations, trucks volume flow, freight weight and volume flow, major issues affecting the system, infrastructure funding sources, and major logistics hubs. Besides, a correlation analysis was performed using El Paso, Texas data concerning truck volume flow rate, warehousing area, and traffic accident data involving trucks. U.S. and EU highway freight transportation system's strengths and weaknesses are discussed, and recommendations on shift of current practices are made. |
