Transearch

Designed to meet the complex information and critical insight needs in the freight transportation marketplace, Transearch is a crucial research tool for building strategic marketing, operational, and investment plans.

It helps users to:

• Prioritize investments
• Improve competitive positioning
• Anticipate economic shifts and market changes

Providing access to the most comprehensive database of US freight movements available, this annually updated tool allows users to:

• Track and anticipate freight flows across the United States at the national, state, business economic area (BEA), and county levels
• Benchmark individual performance relative to the market and determine future market potential
• Understand transportation demand by commodity, location, and mode

Unique Historical Data and Forecasts

Do you need to know freight volumes for the next 5, 15, or 30 years?

Drawing from the IHS Global Insight highly regarded economic, trade, and industry forecasting models, Transearch provides both historical and forecast databases, enabling the sizing of future freight markets over a 30-year time horizon.

Whether tracking modal competition or groups of commodities, Transearch allows users to conduct market analyses by selecting from the following variables and criteria:

• Outbound, inbound, intra, and through shipments by geography
  • Geographies include 172 BEAs
  • Over 3,000 counties
• Routed volumes along individual trade lanes or corridors
• Tonnage, value, and units of shipments
• Seven major transportation modes, including truck, rail, waterborne, and air
• Detail for over 340 commodities
• Canada and Mexico cross-border flows

IHS Global Insight has expertise in over 170 industries, in-depth coverage of more than 200 countries, offices in 13 countries, and one of the largest privately held data repositories in the world. We have a 40-year track record of providing the most accurate, comprehensive, and objective economic analyses and forecasts in the industry.

IHS Global Insight has a track record of providing the most accurate, comprehensive and objective economic analysis and forecasts in the industry. With our global trade and transportation databases, forecasting models and international perspective, we remain the preeminent information provider for international freight markets.

With our Global Commerce and Transport databases, forecasting models, and international perspective, we remain the preeminent information provider for international freight markets.