Communications Update the Minnesota Department of Transportation

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Freight Performance Measures Talking Freight
August, 2010 Bill Gardner, Director Office of
Freight and Commercial Vehicle Operations
Minnesota Department of Transportation

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State DOT Freight Measures Activity

• Performance management dashboards/report cards
• State sponsored university/consultant research
• Multi-state and corridor-based initiatives
• TRB NCFRP
• AASHTO SCOPM
• Statewide Freight Plans and studies
• Freight Advisory Committees

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H.R. 3617

• Freight Improvement Program
• Improve the operations of the existing freight
  transportation system
• Add physical capacity to the freight
  transportation system in places where investment
  makes economic sense
• Strengthen the ability of rural communities to
  access national and international trade markets
• Support regional economic development

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• H.R. 3617Freight Performance Measures
• States shall measure and document the Speed, and
  Reliability of freight movement along facilities
  eligible for funding as well as Access for
  freight
• Secretary shall establish quantifiable
  performance measures no later than 6 months after
  enactment
• Secretary shall establish a target level of
  performance for the state no later than one year
  after the enactment
• A state receiving funding shall publish a report
  annually documenting the performance progress.

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S.3629 Focusing Resources, Economic Investment,
and Guidance to Help Transportation Act of 2010
(FREIGHT Act)

• National Freight Transportation Policy
• Objectiveseconomic competitiveness,
  sustainability, safety, performance and
  reliability, partnerships, operational strategies
• Goals -Reduce delays at international gateways
• -Increase travel time reliability on major
  freight corridors
• -Reduce freight-related fatalities by 10 by
  2015
• -Reduce freight related CO2 by 40 by 2030
• -Reduce freight-related pollution and impacts

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S. 3629 FREIGHT Act

• National Freight Transportation Strategic Plan
• USDOT Office of Freight Planning Development
• National Freight Infrastructure Investment
  Grants
• Emphasis on system performance/benefit-cost
• The Secretary shall develop baselines for the
  goals and determine appropriate methods of data
  collection to measure attainment with the goals

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• SCOPM Task Forces
• Safety
• Preservation
• System Operations
• Congestion
• Freight/Economic Development
• Environment
• Planning and Programming Process
• Comparative Performance Measures

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State SurveyFreight Performance MeasureSpeed
(Travel Time)/Reliability/Access

• What is importance of each category?
• How do we define access?
• What is the appropriate geographic scale?
• What is the potential application of each
  measure?

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• AASHTO Freight/Economic Development Task Force
• Draft Recommendations
• Reliability on Significant Freight Corridors
• Speed/Travel Time on Significant Freight
  Corridors
• Work Ahead
• Define Significant Freight Corridors
• MPO/Private Sector input
• Pursue roadway access measures
• Futurepursue other modal measures