Florida Regional Supply Chain Optimization Model (FRSCOM)

The FRSCOM is being used to examine how strategies like freight consolidation cross-dock and transload facilities could lower freight costs and reduce long-haul truck travel through congested highway corridors in North Florida. The FRSCOM project consisted of three phases:

• Discovery: Data assembly, stakeholder outreach, freight supply/demand analysis
• Model Design: Scenario identification, algorithm development, optimization model runs
• Implementation: Scenario/project evaluation, business case metrics, partnerships/financing

An important element of the optimization development process was the integration of commodity flow data and private sector shipping records. For FRSCOM, Quetica conflated over 1 million shipping records with county level FAF-5 data from USDOT. The integration of public and private data sources provides total freight demand for the study area, while also providing reginal details about equipment usage and modal pricing. The data set created for FDOT also provides disaggregated import/export flows to 41 countries/country groups.