Truck Traffic Origin - Destination (O -D) Analysis This report provides an O-D analysis of freight traffic movement within the city of Fort Worth, Texas, utilizing data from Replica Big Mobility Data Platform. The evaluation focuses on the travel pattern of freight trips across different regions and highlights the most significant routes used for freight trips and movements. Figure 3 shows the origins of freight trips in the city. Most freight trips originate from the industrial and logistic zones located in the northern part of the city, particularly along IH-35W, US-287, and Loop 820. Key hubs include Fort Worth Alliance Airport and the surrounding warehouses and distribution centers, including those operated by Walmart and Verizon. Additionally, storage facilities, such as Amazon UTX7, near Fort Worth Meacham International Airport and railroads serve as important points of origin for freight movements. On the south side of the city, warehouses along IH-35W also produce a significant amount of freight trips, mostly food suppliers such as Tyson Foods and Ben E. Keith Foods. Figure 4 shows freight trip destination areas in Fort Worth, revealing a similar pattern as the origin areas, where the industrial and logistic zones in the north side and south side of the city are receiving large volumes of inbound freight. Replica also provides O-D pairs data. Figure 5 presents the O-D pairs with more than 100 truck trips during a typical Thursday. According to the data, most trips happen between the industrial and logistic zones around the Fort Worth Alliance Airport in the north to the warehouses near Fort Worth Meacham International Airport. There is one major O-D link with nearly 600 trips per day from the FedEx facility in US-287 & Loop 820 interchange to the Alliance airport, and some trips from/to outside of Fort With city boundary, including areas near the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport. Out of 6,200 recorded freight trips in Replica, 21% have origins outside of the city boundary but destinations within the City of Fort Worth,
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