A new report by the Brookings Institution "analyzes domestic and international goods trade data from 2010" toward the goal of better coordinating freight policies and investments between regions.
The study, authored by Adie Tomer and Joseph Kane, includes some of the following key findings:
- Just 10 percent of the country’s trade corridors move 79 percent of all goods, the most valuable of which are concentrated in the country’s 100 largest metropolitan areas.
- Every region of the country relies on at least one major network hub to move large volumes of goods along different corridors domestically and internationally.
The article announcing the study on the Brookings website features a couple of stunning infographics from the report.
FULL STORY: Mapping Freight: The Highly Concentrated Nature of Goods Trade in the United States
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