CVO Safety

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Talking Freight April 15, 2009
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General Themes Seen in Reauthorization
Proposals/Positions

• Defining a federal role in freight and goods
  movement given the regional benefits provided by
  freight corridors and the importance of
  interstate commerce
• Linking transportation policy and funding to the
  environment and energy sectors given
  transportations contribution to greenhouse gas
  emissions and concerns about energy security
• Promoting better management of existing assets
  through efficient use or life-cycle management
  strategies
• Using multiple funding sources to ensure the
  long-term sustainability of the programs and
• Incorporating performance and accountability
  into transportation programs to ensure projects
  that receive funding result in commensurate
  public benefits

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Transportation Performance Measurement

• Several groups have recommended performance-based
  surface transportation programs
• Previous DOT Administrations Transportation
  Infrastructure Reform Act proposal
• AASHTO
• Policy and Revenue Commission
• Finance Commission
• GAO

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Freight Significant Highway Infrastructure

• Interstate System
• International Land Border Crossings and
  approaches
• Intermodal Connectors
• Port Terminals
• Rail Terminals
• Air Terminals

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What are Key Freight Performance Indicators?

• Point-to-point travel times on selected
  freight-significant highways
• Crossing times at international borders
• Condition of connectors between NHS and
  intermodal terminals
• Empty miles
• Cost of highway freight per hour / mile
• Cargo insurance costs
• Customer satisfaction
• Hours of delay per

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Background and Methodology

• What?
• Uses trucks as probes.
• Why?
• Provides a quantifiable basis to engage public
  and private sector and investigate and explore
  causes of delay.
• How?
• Partnership with American Transportation Research
  Institute, data providers, and motor carriers.
• Where?
• 25 major US interstates.
• Land border crossings.
• 15 US/Canada crossings.

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National Corridor Analysis
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FPM Interstates
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International Border Crossings
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US Canada Land Border Crossings
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Typical Border Crossing Network

• U.S. Roadways
• PRIMARY HIGHWAYS
• Michigan Route 3
• Interstate 75
• Interstate 94
• Interstate 96
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• Canadian Roadways
• PRIMARY HIGHWAYS
• ON Provincial 401
• ON Provincial
• E.C. Row EXPY
• FEEDER ROADS
• 4) ON Provincial 403

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Current Measures

• Freight Significant Corridors
• Average Operating Speeds (entire Corridor)
• Travel Time Reliability (Buffer Index)
• Borders (US/Canada)
• Total Crossing Time
• Crossing Time Reliability (Buffer Index)

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Other Travel Time Measures

• Measures of average travel time
• Average travel time in peak period in major metro
  areas
• city-to-city travel time
• shipper point-to-point travel time
• Measures of delay (or added travel time)
• hours of delay per 1000 vehicle-mile
• percent of corridor experiencing AM/PM peak delay
  
• Reliability Measures
• Incident-based delay
• Work-zone based delay
• Weather-based delay

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Current Initiatives US/Mexico

• US/DOT FHWA Led
• Otay Mesa GPS
• El Paso Bridge of the America RFID
• State Lead w/ FHWA Support
• Pharr/Reynosa (TX DOT)
• Nogales (AZ DOT)
• Laredo (contemplated)

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Intermodal Connector Assessment Tool

• Simple tool for assessing the condition of
  freight intermodal connectors at a state or
  national level
• Makes maximum utilization of data that is readily
  available from National data sets (e.g. HPMS)
• Distributed later this summer

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FPM Methods andApplications
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Data Attributes

• Number of Vehicles
• Characteristics of vehicles
• Average Annual Positions
• Data for 25 Corridors will be available from
  mid-2006 to present
• Border Crossing Data from mid-2006 to present

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Data Processing Walkthrough

• Data Characteristics
• ID, Time Stamp, Lat, Long, Interstate Identifier

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Data Processing Walkthrough

• Multiple Hardware/Software Applications
• Data management software, tools and techniques.
• Data processing software, tools and techniques.
• National corridor data analysis is conducted
  using a customized application that uses
• A relational database management system.
• Geographic information system software

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Data Applications

• Confidence the Data Can be Applied in
• the Following Areas
• Trend Analysis and Historical Data (e.g. for
  performance measurement, public information,
  engaging freight stakeholders)
• Analysis of the effects of varying operational
  conditions on the network (e.g. weather,
  incidents, work zones)
• Before and After Project Analysis
• Border Crossing Times

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Data Applications
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State Example
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Incident Example Florida Wildfire
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North Carolina Work Zone Example
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Other Applications
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Border Example
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Freight Bottleneck Analysis
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Truck Parking
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FPMweb

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