Tampa Bay Regional Goods Movement

Welcome to the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) District 7 Regional Goods Movement Study Website. Our regional and local economies depend on efficient freight transportation to link businesses with suppliers and customers. There is not a single product that we consume that has not made its way through the freight network. In order to keep products affordable, freight must move efficiently though the network, at minimal cost and respond to the consumer demand for goods.

The purpose of the Website is to provide local governments, freight stakeholders, and the public with information regarding the efficient movement of goods through, and within the Tampa Bay Region defined as Citrus, Hernando, Hillsborough, Pasco, and Pinellas Counties. For FDOT, Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPO), County and City transportation and engineering staffs and their consultants, this site provides a valuable source of information on freight issues as well as a gateway into the District Seven interactive Regional Freight Database.

Information within this Website is displayed via regional and county maps that show diverse datasets including: regional and local truck routes, current and future truck traffic, gross freight tonnage and estimated freight value traveling through a corridor, location of Freight Activity Centers (FACs), freight "Hot Spots", accident locations involving trucks, local land use, planned road improvement projects, and more. Also included are links to regional freight research "White Papers", Freight Library, and to various state and national freight related websites, general statistical information, Freight Facts and the Freight Story.