North American Commerce & Transport Data
IHS Global Insight's Global Commerce & Transport Service provides transportation providers and government agencies with the information they need to increase profitability or make long-term infrastructure plans, respectively. Our data and services support transportation decision-making needs.
TRANSEARCH®
Our TRANSEARCH database is your exclusive source for U.S. county-level freight-movement data by commodity group and mode of transportation. We developed this historical database by combining information from public sources and data on primary shipments obtained from major freight carriers. We compile and produce TRANSEARCH annually, providing you with the most comprehensive information on domestic freight activity available. Thanks to our acquisition of Reebie Associates, we have extended this database to include projections consistent with IHS Global Insight's macro forecasts.
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Service Features
- Truck shipments of manufactured goods and selected non-manufactured goods
- Rail shipments, including carload and intermodal
- Waterborne and air freight shipments
- U.S./Mexico and U.S./Canada shipments for selected transportation modes
FREIGHT LOCATORTM
IHS Global Insight's Freight Locator is a companion to our TRANSEARCH data service, adding specific facilities to the freight shipment information TRANSEARCH provides. Containing more than 168,000 records on U.S. manufacturing and warehousing establishments, Freight Locator tells you who are shipping goods and what commodities are being shipped. This service also provides estimates of annual tonnage, equipment needs, and rates of business growth or contraction.
Intermodal Freight Flow Database
As a natural extension of our historical TRANSEARCH® database, IHS Global Insight's state-of-the-art U.S. Intermodal Freight Flow database projects freight flows by truck, air, rail, and water for all 3,000+ U.S. counties. Twice a year, IHS Global Insight provides detailed annual data for 38 different commodity groups. This unique database is the only system that links freight forecasts with detailed economic activity from IHS Global Insight's Business Demographic database.
Highway administrators, transportation planners, and state departments of transportation use this information to plan infrastructure investments, analyze economic-development initiatives, and quantify the impact of proposed policy changes.
Service Features
- Freight flows for all 3,000+ U.S. counties
- Annual data on 38 commodity groups
- Truck, air, rail, and water freight information
- Semi-annual forecasts to 2030
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