Office of Freight Management and Operations HOFM Status and Future Directions

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Office of Freight Management and Operations
(HOFM)- Status and Future Directions
Tony Furst, Director
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Office of Operations
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Office of Freight Management and Operations The
Context

• 25 of the U.S. GDP is related to international
  trade and is predicted to continue to grow.
• Freight volume moved by all modes of
  transportation is predicted to nearly double
  between 1998 and 2020.
• Many of our highways, railroads, and intermodal
  facilities are running out of capacity to
  accommodate anticipated volumes of freight.
• Congestion impedes timely and reliable freight
  movements and threatens business productivity.
• Freight movements cross state and metropolitan
  boundaries, are served primarily by the private
  sector, and are hard to accommodate by
  traditional public institutions.

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Truck volumes on major highways
1998
2020 -
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Congested highways
1998
2020 -
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Office of Freight Management and Operations The
Context

• Security, safety, environmental, and other
  concerns are competing with the need for
  efficient, reliable flows of freight.
• Without improvements in freight technology,
  operations, infrastructure, and institutions, the
  cost of goods will increase, global
  competitiveness will be reduced, jobs will be
  lost, and passenger travel by highway and rail
  will be in increasing conflict with freight
  movements.

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Office of Freight Management and Operations
Objectives

• Support the productivity and economic benefits
  of freight transportation
• Understand the magnitude and geography of
  freight moving on the nations transportation
  system
• Develop strategies, analytical tools,
  institutional arrangements, and professional
  capacities for all levels of government to
  address freight movement
• Enforce commercial vehicle size and weight
  requirements
• Encourage innovative freight technology
  operations

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Office of Freight Management and Operations
Major Activities

• Analysis
• Freight Professional Development
• Vehicle Size and Weight
• Freight Technology Operations
• Policy

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Freight Policy
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Freight Analysis Reduce congestion and improve
mobility by providing analytic capability to
transportation managers, planners and policy
developers regarding freight transportation
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Beyond FAF

• Travel time in freight-significant corridors and
  border crossing delay
• Provide coherent freight data to the people who
  make transportation investments
• Benefit-cost analysis for freight-related
  highway investments
• The Freight Story, Intermodal Connectors,
  Condition and Performance Report, etc.
• Rolf.Schmitt_at_fhwa.dot.gov 202-366-9258
  Joanne.Sedor_at_fhwa.dot.gov 202-366-8959

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Freight Professional Development (FPD) Reduce
congestion and improve mobility by providing
training and analytic tools to transportation
managers, planners and policy developers
regarding freight transportation
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Freight Professional Development

• Listening sessions to identify current needs
• NHI courses, workshops, and other traditional
  approaches to training and peer-to-peer exchange
• New approaches such as the Talking Freight
  series
• Resource Library
• Long range strategies to develop the next
  generation of freight professionals
• Scott.Johnson_at_fhwa.dot.gov 202-366-9498

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Freight Technology Operations Improve freight
efficiency and global connectivity by identifying
and facilitating the deployment of technology and
operations
Motor/ Rail
Motor/ Rail
Ocean
Receiver
Port
Shipper
Port
Carrier
Carrier
Carrier
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Freight Technology Operations

• Freight Process Mapping Enhancement
• Standards Development
• International Mobility Trade Corridor
• Electronic Freight Manifest
• Information Highway
• Border ITS integration
• Michael.Onder_at_fhwa.dot.gov 202-366-2639
  Randy.Bultler_at_fhwa.dot.gov 202-366-9215
  Crystal.Jones_at_fhwa.dot.gov 202-366-2976

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Commercial Vehicle Size and Weight Improve the
physical condition of the highway transportation
system by effective application of size and
weight standards and technologies
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Commercial Vehicle Size and Weight

• Infrastructure preservation

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Commercial Vehicle Size and Weight

• Staff interaction.
• Automation of State reporting of SW data
• Provide interactive, real-time website
  communication for stakeholders on legal
  interpretations policy.
• Robert.Davis_at_fhwa.dot.gov 202-366-2997
  Phillip.Forjan_at_fhwa.dot.gov 202-366-6817
• Julie.Strawhorn_at_fhwa.dot.gov 202-366-4415
• Data Analysis
• Data Sharing

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Commercial Vehicle Size and Weight

• Training
• Regional training
• Structured training
• NTSB
• SW technologies
• Special Studies

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• Further Information at
• http//www.ops.fhwa.dot.gov/freight
• 202-366-9210