The intent of the
assessment is to compare “apples to apples” in the baseline period before
FRATIS and after FRATIS is being used by the dray company.Early in the analysis, the assessment team,
in conjunction with Noblis, identified several operational conditions for
which data was collected both during baseline and test periods.The principal operational conditions to be
examined are traffic conditions on the road segments where the trucks operate
and the volume of business the drayage company was conducting as measured by
daily orders for container movements.The assessment team did some preliminary bin analysis, but found no
appreciable differences.DOT thus told
the team to concentrate on trip times.
In order to confirm
the integrity of the assessment and to test the realism of the data analysis
tools, the assessment team did some preliminary analysis of several months of
baseline and test data for LA.DOT
also asked that the assessment team prepare weekly reports of trip time
analysis during the fall to facilitate testing underway at the dray
company.The next two slides contain
some of the information from those weekly analyses for LA.