New Orleans Intra-City Truck Freight Study

1. New Orleans Intra-City Truck Freight Study Talking Freight Seminar April 19th 2005 Karen Parsons New Orleans Regional Planning Commission Eulois Cleckley Wilbur Smith Associates

2. Presentation Outline • Background • Benefits • Challenges • Study Methodology • Data collection process • Outcomes • Conclusion New Orleans Intra-City Truck Freight Study 2005

3. Trucking Industry Overview New Orleans 5-Parish Area Orleans, Jefferson, Plaquemines, St. Bernard and St. Tammany • Over 9 million tons were moved by truck from New Orleans • 17% of Average Annual Daily Truck Traffic (AADTT) and 16% of total shipments were intra-state • 75 companies and 12 brokers within Orleans parish • 66% of truck traffic is caused by light duty and delivery trucks within Orleans parish • 9% of all large trucks carry hazardous materials • 58 million in truck registration fees, fine and penalties--- Taxes paid by trucking sector (Fuel, violations) • Intermodal ports, Elmwood, Labarre, NORBP and Earhart /Tulane Business parks generate majority of truck moves • Anecdotal sense of where trucks are going and the effect on a city area. New Orleans Intra-City Truck Freight Study 2005

4. Vision and Goals Vision To provide a picture of the trucking freight movements within the New Orleans metropolitan area and inform our understanding of the flow of freight within the 5-parish New Orleans Region. • Goals • To determine the freight flows by truck through the New Orleans 5-parish area • To illustrate the inbound and outbound truck flows from the Business Parks and Industrial Districts • To illustrate inbound and outbound truck moves to Intermodal yards (port moves and rail drays) New Orleans Intra-City Truck Freight Study 2005

5. Strategy • Goal • To determine the freight flows by truck through the New Orleans 5-parish area • Objectives • Focus on the major truck trip generators in the region. • Identify the businesses in the Business Parks and Industrial Districts (Elmwood, Labarre, New Orleans Regional Business and Industrial Park, Earhart/Tulane, Harvey Canal Industrial Park and other identifiable business/industry clusters). • Goal • To illustrate the inbound and outbound truck flows from the Business Parks and • Industrial Districts • Objectives • Locate and map the Business Parks, Industrial Districts and Freight Villages • Quantify the delivery patterns through the use of a comprehensive online survey. • Map flow of freight to and from locations by zip code clusters. New Orleans Intra-City Truck Freight Study 2005

6. Strategy (Cont’d) • Goal • To illustrate inbound and outbound truck moves to Intermodal yards(port moves and rail drays) • Objectives • Map truck freight flows for the Intermodal yards (Port of New Orleans, CSX, UP, NS, BNSF, CN and KCS). • Quantify drayage trips from terminal to terminal. Map flow of freight to and from terminals by zip code clusters. New Orleans Intra-City Truck Freight Study 2005

7. Previous Data Collection Current traffic demand modeling: • Limited traffic counts around region • Truck traffic as percentage of overall traffic • Supplemental traffic data through travel diaries • 2000 survey of 20 trucking firms (approx. 100 questionnaires) self identified worst problems • Verify/Update Truck Route Maps using local ordinances and designated state routes New Orleans Intra-City Truck Freight Study 2005

8. New Data Collection Approach Developed • Establish regional study boundaries • Define ‘Significant Freight Generators’ • Contact selected businesses • Create the online survey New Orleans Intra-City Truck Freight Study 2005

9. Benefits • More robust understanding of trucking movements related to geography • Developed new analysis tool useful for other Metropolitan Planning Organizations • Regional rather than statewide • Assist in categorizing truck moves for congestion management planning New Orleans Intra-City Truck Freight Study 2005

10. Benefits • Understand how truck flows effect business operations (and visa versa) • Locate freight generators and quantify activities • Inform land use policy • Inform transportation planning • Establish knowledgeable advisory committees: Trucking Subcommittee and Freight Advisory Group • Inform project selection for TIP and MTP New Orleans Intra-City Truck Freight Study 2005

11. Challenges

12. Challenges • Identifying the businesses • Purchase of SIC code business data base (other uses too) • Used interested, unpaid graduate students to call local businesses (Univ. of New Orleans – MURP students) • Introduce project and gather accurate contact information • Ensuring Participation • Post Card snail mail reminders to fill out survey on-line • On-line survey reminders weekly • Offer of free regional truck map • Made presentations to local business park associations • Offer of copy of New Orleans Trucking Study report when completed New Orleans Intra-City Truck Freight Study 2005

13. Challenges • Locating and researching an on-line survey tool • Survey Monkey - $19 per month • Designing good survey – understandable/reasonable length • Compiling and assembling contact information of local business making or receiving trucked deliveries • Establishing a relationship with truck/motor carriers • Establishing Cluster Zip Code Zones • Establish Zone to Zone matrix –drivers self identify most-used truck routes (personal knowledge/time consuming) • Determining types of trucks making deliveries • Compilation and analysis of survey data and other info New Orleans Intra-City Truck Freight Study 2005

14. The Survey  Business type (determine the number of warehouses, distribution centers and businesses in each business park)  Number of deliveries to warehouses, distribution centers and general business  Day of the week deliveries occur  Time of the day that deliveries are made (typical delivery pattern)  Carrier size (determination between 5-axle trucks and delivery trucks)  Number of outbound loads (shipments) depending on business type  Destinations of loads to determine the truck routes used in the parish area New Orleans Intra-City Truck Freight Study 2005

15. Survey Tool

16. Intra-City Freight Flow StudyZip Code Zone Map

17. SIC Code Breakdown New Orleans Intra-City Truck Freight Study 2005

18. Business Per Zone New Orleans Intra-City Truck Freight Study 2005

19. Freight Flow Trends Results

20. Vehicle Type Results

21. Intracity Truck Freight Study Results

22. Next Steps Interrupted by Hurricane Katrina • Data from motor carriers for Flow Matrix • Weighted Flow Maps • State crash data received yet problematic • Crash analysis using CrimeStat Software • Trucking Subcommittee – formed but not regrouped • Formulation of a Freight Advisory Group New Orleans Intra-City Truck Freight Study 2005

23. Katrina Recovery Trucks April 06

24. Katrina Recovery Trucks April 06

25. Household Debris Stream Twin Span Bridge Emergency Replacement Organic Debris Stream