Standing Committee on Planning Freight Planning Webinar

1. Standing Committee on Planning Freight Planning Webinar Sandi Kohrs Colorado DOT Planning Director Chair, SCOP Policy Subcommittee April 26, 2012

2. SCOP Freight Planning Webinar • SCOP strategic plan includes advancing state of practice in planning • Interest from SCOP members to interface more with freight committees • Desire to improve knowledge base on freight planning studies and activities • Decision to organize webinar to reach broad audience

3. SCOP Freight Planning Webinar • First webinar goal to have speakers from key organizations address planning side of freight • Reach out to transportation planning members • Share information on current direction and on-going/future studies • Gather ideas for future webinar agendas

4. SCOP Freight Planning Webinar • Today’s speakers • Leo Penne and Chris Smith, AASHTO • Rolf Schmitt, FHWA • Dave Plazak, TRB and SHRP 2 • Time for discussion of future activities or webinar topics

5. Freight Transportation at AASHTO Leo Penne Program Director for Intermodal and Industry Activities

6. AASHTO Freight Committees SCOHT SCORT SCOWT SCITEE

7. Annual and Washington Meetings • Federal Agencies • FHWA, FRA, FMCSA, MARAD, USACE, RITA, DOC • Industry Companies and Associations • AAR, ATA, AAPA, NITL, NWC, US Chamber • Research • TRB, University, Industry • State DOT Best Practices • Policy Development

8. Committee Annual Meetings

9. AASHTO Freight Transportation Network

10. AASHTO Freight Transportation Network • Four committee web sites linked • Committee agendas, meeting proceedings • Federal legislation • Links to freight organizations and information sources • State DOT information, such as freight plans, rail plans, rail programs, short line financing

11. Committee Home Page rail.transportation.org

12. AASHTO Rail Resource Center • Professional and institutional development for state rail programs - Freight and Passenger • Webinars, information sharing, workshops, peer-to-peer, publications

13. Reports and Publications

14. AASHTO FHWA Collaboration

15. International Scans

16. Products and Activities • State Rail Planning Best Practices • Catalog of state short line financing programs • AASHTO-FHWA Freight Partnership Meeting • International freight scans • Reauthorization freight policy

17. Freight at FHWA Rolf R. SchmittActing Director, Office of Freight Management and Operations

18. The Freight Challenge • All communities depend on freight • To supply consumers • To support businesses that are the source of jobs • Most businesses generate freight and all businesses receive freight • Freight continues to grow • More tons to supply a growing population at home and abroad • More miles per ton in response to longer supply chains, just-in-time delivery, and higher valued goods

19. The Freight Challenge • Freight causes congestion and is disrupted by congestion • Freight contributes to energy consumption, environmental problems, and safety concerns • Freight highlights the conflict between interregional movement and local communities

20. Freight is different than passenger travel • Different modes, temporal patterns, and ownership of facilities and services • Greater volatility from short term economic fluctuations and footloose industries compared to demographics of households • Greater diversity of establishments that does not average out • Greater importance of external movements relative to internal movements

21. Freight issues for planners • Investments to discourage businesses from moving away • Investments and improved freight operations to move external traffic with minimal harm to local communities • Opportunities for modal diversion • Trucks • Size and weight limits, routes, and local access • Parking facilities and delivery times

22. Freight tools • Data and understanding • Freight Analysis Framework • Freight Performance Measures • Freight investment programs • TIGER, CMAQ, truck parking • Freight operations • SmartRoadside • Cross Town Improvement Project • Off Hours Delivery Program Pilot

23. Freight tools • Research • National Cooperative Freight Research Program (NCFRP) • Freight Model Improvement Program (FMIP) • Sharing experience • Peer-to-peer exchanges • NHI courses • Talking Freight Webinars • Freight plan template • Website

24. FHWA looks to its freight partners • To help us identify freight problems and ways to solve those problems • To try the tools and tell us how to make them better • To supplement the national picture with local detail • To experiment with improvements to freight and share results

25. MAP-21: a possible future • National Freight Program • National freight policy, performance measures, and plans at all levels • Analytical tools to support investment • Truck size and weight study

26. For more information: freight.dot.gov

27. Freight Planning at TRB David Plazak David Plazak Senior Program Officer, SHRP 2

28. Overview of TRB Activities • Technical Activities • Standing Committees and Task Forces • Annual Meeting and Other More Specialized Conferences and Workshops • Cooperative Research Programs • Cooperative agreements with AASHTO and USDOT • Examples: Highway, Transit, Aviation, Freight • Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) • Limited life research program focused on rapid renewal, safety, reliability, and capacity planning • Cooperative agreement with AASHTO and FHWA

29. TRB Standing Committees • There are many standing volunteer committees plus task forces that are temporary in nature • A few examples of those most relevant to freight planning: • Freight Transportation Data (ABJ90) • Freight Transportation Planning and Logistics (AT010) • Urban Freight Transportation (AT025) • Intermodal Freight Transportation (AT045) • Committees are where a lot of the work of TRB gets done • Committees and task forces are great opportunities for networking and learning

30. National Cooperative Freight Research Program (NCFRP) • Report 4, “Representing Freight in Air Quality and Greenhouse Gas Models” • Report 8, “Freight-Demand Modeling to Support Public-Sector Decision Making” • Report 9, “Specifications for Freight Transportation Data Architecture” • Report 10, “Performance Measures for Freight Transportation” • Report 11, “Identification and Evaluation of Freight Demand Factors” • Report 13, “Economic and Transportation Drivers for Siting Freight Intermodal and Warehouse Distribution Facilities” • Report 14, “Understanding Urban Goods Movements” • Report 16, “Preserving and Protecting Freight Infrastructure and Routes”

31. NCFRP Research In Progress • NCFRP-20, “Guidebook for Developing Sub-national Commodity Flow Data” • NCFRP-25, “Freight Trip Generation and Land Use” • NCFRP-26, “Freight Transportation Cost Data Elements” • NCFRP-30, “Web-Based Screening Tool for Shared-Use Rail Corridors” • NCFRP-31, “Guidebook for Sharing Freight Transportation Data” • NCFRP-32, “Impact of Smart Growth on Metropolitan Goods Movement“ • NCFRP-38, “Improving Freight System Performance in Metropolitan Areas” • NCFRP-39, “Making Trucks Count: Innovative Strategies for Obtaining Comprehensive Truck Activity Data”

32. Second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) • Completed Projects (In Publication Process) • SHRP 2 C20, “Freight Demand Modeling and Data Improvement Strategic Plan” • What needs to be done to improve freight demand modeling, freight data, and visualization for freight? • Research In Progress (Completion Mid-2012) • SHRP 2 C15, “Integrating Freight Considerations into Collaborative Decision-Making for Additions to Highway Capacity” • How can DOTs and MPOs better involve private sector freight stakeholders? • Future Projects (RFP July 2012; Fall 2013 Event) • SHRP 2 C43, “Second Symposium on Improving Freight Demand Modeling and Data” • Initial symposium held in Fall 2010 as part of C20 project. • Papers available at http://www.freightplanning.com

33. Other Relevant TRB Publications and Workshops • HMCRP Report 3, “Hazardous Materials Commodity Flow Data and Analysis” • Invitational Workshop, “Measuring the Transportation System from a Supply Chain Perspective”, July 2012, Irvine, CA • Past Invitational Workshop, “Strategies for Meeting Critical Data Needs for Decision Making in State and Metropolitan Transportation Agencies”, December 2011, Irvine, CA (proceedings being prepared)

34. Discussion Everyone

35. Webianr Purpose • Have speakers from key organizations address planning side of freight • Reach out to transportation planning members • Share information on current direction and on-going/future studies • Gather ideas for future webinar agendas

36. Challenges • Integrating freight transportation into state DOT core functions • Carrying out multi-state corridor programs • Linking successfully with private sector • Doing cross-modal planning and investment analysis • Bridging local, state, regional, national analysis, planning, investment, operations • Implementing reauthorization