Florence Area Freight Study

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Florence Area Freight Study

• June 17, 2008

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Florence Area Freight Study Agenda

• 1000-1015 Welcome
• 1015-1030 Background Information
• 1030-1100 Brainstorming
• 1100-1115 Break
• 1115-1145 Potential Solutions
• 1145-1200 Comments and Adjournment

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Florence County Planning Services

• comprehensive planning
• Transportation
• Land Use
• Economy
• Natural Resources
• track air quality
• transportation planning
• Florence Area Transportation Study (FLATS)

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Opportunities

• Southeast Diesel Collaborative
• National Cooperative Freight Research Program
• National Highway Institute
• FLATS
• Pee Dee Council of Governments
• County Transportation Committee

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Southeast Diesel Collaborative

• Diesel emission reduction projects
• Competitive grant throughout EPA Region 4
• Estimated funding 3.6 million (FY 08/09)
• Buses, medium and heavy duty trucks, marine
  engines, locomotives, non-road engines
• Retrofits, idle reduction technologies, cleaner
  fuel use, engine repowers, upgrades, vehicle and
  equipment replacements

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National Cooperative Freight Research Program

• Develop information that will improve efficiency,
  reliability, safety and security of freight
  transportation systems
• Carries out applied research in policy, planning,
  operations, economics, administration,
  environment, safety, security
• Strategic plan analyze business, develop
  reliable data/tools, explore improvements,
  evaluate investments to capacity, strengthen
  institutional framework

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Outlook

• Identify and access existing and future freight
  movement and regional infrastructure for all
  modes
• Identify regional freight needs and challenges
• Facilitate a task force of stakeholders
• Determine freight capacity of major routes
• Collect data from freight stakeholders through
  origin/destination surveys and interviews
• Compile a comprehensive freight transportation
  profile including origin/destination, modal
  shares, and interregional and intraregional
  freight flows

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Outlook

• Identify regional freight corridors or networks
  critical to freight movement in the region,
  focusing on road network, and their significance
  to state, federal and global freight networks
• Map future primary freight routes
• Quantify economic significance of freight in the
  region
• Quantify environmental and social impacts related
  to freight movement
• Development freight-supported land use guidelines
• Identify potential short-term and long-term
  freight improvement projects
• Recommend potential infrastructure improvement
  projects to facilitate efficient movement of
  goods in the region

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Partners

• Brono Transportation
• Johnson Controls
• Jones Brothers
• McCall Farms
• OAC Trucking
• QVC
• South East Express
• Southeastern Freight Line
• Thompson Transportation
• UPS
• Wilco
• Weskay LLC

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Brainstorming

• Ingress and egress to businesses (look at
  accident records at these points)
• Pamplico Highway delays and accidents
• Smurfitt/DuPont area no potential to widen 327
  turnovers, ditch placement
• Exit 170 works well for alternate route to avoid
  city traffic
• Stop lights in City
• Signage for street names
• Notification of repaving/ road construction

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Brainstorming

• Bipass south of Florence
• Congestion on 52/ I-95, road conditions at that
  location
• Five points congestion
• 52 and Second Loop congestion
• Access roads and business entrances (accommodate
  18-wheelers and the small truck) consider at
  design level
• Widening of lanes providing better mobility
• Pole logistic managers
• Quality of current roads were not planned for
  larger volumes of freight.
• TV Road widening
• DT Timmonsville 403 to 151 in Hartsville to 601
  more trucks use this route to Charlotte, tight
  turns onto 403
• Speed regulation for trucks into Florence area
  (on/off-ramps not long enough to bring vehicles
  up to speed)

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Brainstorming

• No ramp at 76/ I-95
• Francis Marion Road shortest route is the
  priority for freight propose restricted roads
  limiting freight
• Legislation to limit weight of freight trucks
• Establish truck routes
• Safety road service to pick debris in road (Exit
  157 to TV road)
• Ridges in road from weight and heat (52 and I-95)
• Coordinate land use and transportation

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Brainstorming

• Congestion Traffic restrictions/ regulation
• Safety
• Coordinate land use and transportation
• Survey logistic managers
• Notification of repaving/ road construction

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Brainstorming - Grouped

• Safety
• Safety road service to pick debris in road (Exit
  157 to TV road) call to SCDOT for maintenance
  updates
• Ridges in road from weight and heat (52 and I-95)
• Ingress and egress to businesses (look at
  accident records at these points)
• Pamplico Highway delays and accidents
• Smurfitt/DuPont area no potential to widen 327
  turnovers, ditch placement
• Access roads and business entrances (accommodate
  18-wheelers and the small truck) consider at
  design level
• Widening of lanes providing better mobility
• Signage for street names

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Brainstorming - Grouped

• Congestion
• No ramp at 76/ I-95
• Bipass south of Florence
• Congestion on 52/ I-95, road conditions at that
  location
• Five points congestion
• 52 and Second Loop congestion
• Exit 170 works well for alternate route to avoid
  city traffic
• Stop lights in City
• DT Timmonsville 403 to 151 in Hartsville to 601
  more trucks use this route to Charlotte, tight
  turns onto 403

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Brainstorming - Grouped

• Traffic restrictions/ regulations
• With little money spending
• Francis Marion Road shortest route is the
  priority for freight propose restricted roads
  limiting freight
• Quality of current roads were not planned for
  larger volumes of freight.
• Legislation to limit weight of freight trucks
• Establish truck routes
• Speed regulation for trucks into Florence area
  (on/off-ramps not long enough to bring vehicles
  up to speed)
• Criteria for limiting certain roads for freight
• Look at dump trucks and logging trucks heavy
  equipment and cement hauler for restricting local
  uses

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Brainstorming - Grouped

• Coordinate land use and transportation
• Survey logistic managers
• Minimize challenges
• Know volume of product
• Future plans company (expansion)
• Notification of repaving/ road construction
• Inland Port project (Sellers _at_ 301)
• Foreign Trade Zone permitting (one in Santee
  Dubai based company)

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Comments

• Include logistics managers on invitation
• general public safety
• Produce public service announcements about road
  construction (RSS feeds, radio/TV, electronic
  displays)
• Advertise in the chamber newsletter seek more
  business input through Chamber
• Safety is integral part of all transportation
  businesses
• Owner/operator needs to be able to access
  information
• Quarterly meetings, e-mail forum
• Integrate land use into transportation planning
• Possibly serve lunch at the quarterly meetings