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Among private-sector firms, the cost, timeliness, and reliability of their own supply chains were of intense interest, whereas they expressed considerably less interest in measures of system condition or externalities. Private-sector logistics officials and trucking executives expressed keen interest in their own fleets, customers, and vendors but less interest in government-provided metrics.
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Another difference noted was that the private-sector respondents' role in national and international supply chains caused the to be more consistently interested in national and international measures, as opposed to local or regional ones, which were preferred by the state agency respondents. As seen in Figure 5-2, a significant majority of respondents lis ed as " y" important potential measures of changes in logistics costs.
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By a fairly wide margin, the respondents reported that they had never desired freight performance measures that would be produced by the public sector. Sixty-three percent of respondents (Figure 5.5)
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Rating of environmental measures. By a fairly wide margin, the respondents reported that they had never desired freight performance measures that would be produced by the public sector.
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Performance measures regarding the national freight network and daily freight system performance generally were not ranked as highly by the states. The exception was for travel-time Figure 5.7.
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The private sector appeared to be influenced by its involvement with long international and intercontinental supply chains. The state officials were influenced by their local and state responsibilities.
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They clearly rated highly those measures that predicted future freight volumes, as seen in Figure 5.8. Figure 5.2.
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While extensive data exist regarding what railroads haul, less information is available about what service they have discontinued, particularly at the local, regional, or individual producer level. This type of local service information is of acute interest to many public officials, as well as to the private producers who desire rail service.
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All the top measures ranked for state officials consisted of local or regional measures. As can be seen, the top performance measures for this group were related to congestion, infrastructure condition, and environmental externalities of freight.
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Port Performance Indicators. In Infrastructure Notes, prepared for the Transportation, Water and Urban Development Department of the World Bank, December 1993, http://siteresources.worldbank.org/ INTTRANSPORT/Resources/336291-1119275973157/td-ps6.pdf (accessed May 24, 2010)
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