Data Analysis The City of Fort Worth is a critical hub for freight and truck traffic due to its strategic location within major transportation corridors, including IH-35W, IH-20, and IH-30. This report provides an evaluation of truck-involved crashes, current freight traffic patterns, identifying the most congested roads, truck traffic duration, number of trips and key insights and recommendations for improving freight mobility and infrastructure. Truck-Involved Crashes Recent safety analysis from the State of Safety Report (2024), reveals that out of 68,936 total crashes from 2019 to 2023, 6,193 (9%) of those involved commercial motor vehicles (CMVs), and 5,943 (8.6%) of those involved large trucks. The data indicates that the City of Fort Worth has a significantly higher freight vehicle crash share among all crashes than the state average (6.9%/7.4%) or peer cities such as Dallas (7.7%/6.6%) or Houston (5.4%/4.9%). The results are summarized in Figure 1 .
Figure 1 : Percentage of CMV and Large Truck Crashes, 2024 (Source: State of Safety Report)
However, when compared to these other cities in terms of CMV or Large Truck crashes per million commercial vehicle miles traveled (VMT), Fort Worth is the second lowest, only higher than the City of Austin, as shown in Table 1.
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