tailieunhanh - Delaware Freight and Goods Movement Plan Technical Report

Before market segmentation can take place, the relevant market has to be defined, meaning the product related, geographical and temporal boundaries of that market have to be fixed. 21 Any such definition has to look at the market through the consum- ers’ eyes, because the consumer makes decisions based on the evaluation of alterna- tives and substitutes. It answers the following three questions: “What bus iness are we in?”, “Which are the relevant competitors, offering alternatives or substitutes to our product(s)?”, “Which geographic region(s) are we covering?”, and “Which period of the market is to be taken in the focus of the analysis?”. | Delaware Freight and Goods Movement Plan Technical Report June 2004 Delaware Department of Transportation Division of Planning Prepared By Parsons TABLE OF CONTENTS Page 1. INTRODUCTION Report Planning Stakeholder Review of Relevant Planning Statewide Long-Range Transportation Delaware Aviation System Plan Port of Wilmington Strategic Master Freight Movement and Visitor Travel Programs in the Wilmington Other Relevant Plans and 2. FACTORS AFFECTING FREIGHT MOVEMENT IN DELAWARE DelDOT s Freight Transportation DelDOT Organizational Other Agency DelDOT Organizational Impact National and Regional Interstate Freight Freight Originating in Freight Destined to Intrastate Freight Trends and Issues Affecting Freight Operations in Freight Implications of Delaware s Growth Freight Trends and Characteristics of Key Industries in Automotive Chemical Poultry Pharmaceuticals Distribution Solid Waste Freight Network Performance A Logistical Profile of 3. MOTOR CARRIERS Trucks Registered in Intermodal Drayage 3-3 Interstate Trucking Interstate Truck Freight i Truck Accidents and Major Trucking 4. RAILROADS Rail Commodity Interstate Rail Freight Interstate Rail Freight Norfolk Southern Operations in Rail Freight Issues .4-10 5. WATER TRANSPORT Regional Delaware Shipping Delaware Waterborne Waterborne Freight 6. AIR FREIGHT Air Freight Air Freight 7. INTERMODAL FREIGHT .