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Stakeholder consultations. Regarding Task 1.2, we will conduct a deep dive on operations of the highway system, and also generally address operations of the other modes. We will utilize the best empirical sources available to identify truck movements, performance, freight land use and last-mile, and other issues as deemed important during the course of this study. Some of the data sources to accomplish this are publicly available—including truck volume and other infrastructure-related data that can be obtained from IADOT, ILDOT and others. Others sources will be acquired by the CPCS Team to support the project. As example, publicly available data sets will be used in combination with truck GPS data provided by our team member, ATRI, to understand how the system is used and detailed quantification of truck movements. While the National Performance Measurement Research Data Set (NPMRDS) is available from FHWA free of charge, and is useful for performance analysis (i.e. congestion and reliability), at its most fundamental level, it only provides average speed at 5 minutes periods. We have concluded that for the purposes of this study— with its focus on truck corridors that are not interstate corridors—that the raw ATRI data is more robust. For example, the raw ATRI data can be structured to individual trips, thus giving a sense of truck volumes for roads. ATRI data is based on sample heavy trucks. It does not provide an absolute count of truck volumes, like a counting station, but it provides relative volumes by corridor, which will be used for identifying the key truck corridors. Additionally, ATRI's GPS data includes unit IDs so origin-destination (OD) activities within and through a region can be assessed and it can be used to monitor activity at freight generators and truck parking locations. We will use this data as a cost- effective means to satisfy the RFP requirement to conduct truck OD surveys.