Proceeding of Malaysian Universities Transportation Research Forum and Conferences 2010 (MUTRFC2010), 21 December 2010, Universiti Tenaga Nasional. ISBN 978-967-5770-08-1 99 REGIONAL FREIGHT TRANSPORTATION PLANNING: AN OVERVIEW OF DEVELOPING METHODOLOGY Noor Mahmudah 1 *, Danang Parikesit 2 Siti Malkhamah , 3 , Sigit Priyanto 4 , and Mark Zuidgeest 5 ABSTRACT: There is a parallel evolution of a political economy and the transportation system either in developed or developing countries. The growth of economic will increase the number of ton-km of freight transportation. As flows of freight and their impacts increase, transportation planners, managers, and operators have a more concern to develop a better methods for tracking and monitoring the flows of commodities and analyzing the impacts of these flows to the transportation infrastructures. Current estimation of freight flows and analysis methods have several problems, which are related to the data and the method itself. This paper attempts to elaborate the relationship of the economics activities of commodities toward export - specifically the production of goods and services that generate freight transportation, the spatial data of commodities related to the economics’ activities (resources, factories, and outlets), the transportation data (infrastructures, modes, and services), and government regulations, in formulating the method for freight transportation planning to produce an efficient freight movement to enhance sustainable mobility and economic development in the regional scale. Keywords: methodology; planning; regional freight transportation 1 Ph.D Candidate, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UGM, Jl. Grafika No. 2, Yogyakarta, 55281, INDONESIA 2 Prof. Dr., Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UGM, Jl. Grafika No. 2, Yogyakarta, 55281, INDONESIA 3 Prof. Dr., Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UGM, Jl. Grafika No. 2, Yogyakarta, 55281, INDONESIA 4 Prof. Dr., Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UGM, Jl. Grafika No. 2, Yogyakarta, 55281, INDONESIA 5 Assistant Professor, Dr., ITC, University of Twente, Hengelosestraat 99, 7514 AE, Enschede, THE NETHERLANDS *Correspondence Author: Noor Mahmudah, Jl. Grafika No. 2, Yogyakarta, 55281, INDONESIA. Tel: +62 274 6497249, Fax: +62274631178. E-mail: mahmudah@hotmail.com