Transportation Engineering

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Transportation Engineering

• Vehicle Dynamics
• Geometric Design
• Pavement Design
• Traffic Theory
• Level of Service
• Queueing Theory
• Intelligent Transportation Systems
• Signalized Intersections
• Transportation Planning
• Route Choice
• Implications

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Havent Covered

• Modes other than surface motorized vehicles
• Environmental impacts from transportation
• Economic impacts of transportation
• Impact of fuel price on transportation
• Transportation policy
• Goods movement
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Transportation courses at UW

• CEE 441 Highway and Traffic Engineering (4
  credits) This is the senior capstone course for
  transportation-construction.
• CEE 404 Infrastructure Construction (4 credits).
  Covers basic concepts of large infrastructure
  construction projects including planning,
  scheduling, life-cycle cost analysis (LCCA),
  construction cost, logistics and productivity.
  Involves a 7-week group project that plans a
  major repaving of an I-5 section in the urban
  Seattle area.
• CEE 421 Pavement Design (3 credits) Current and
  developing procedures for the structural
  thickness design of pavements. Bituminous and
  concrete pavements for highways, airports, and
  special heavy loading. Elastic layered systems,
  slab theory. Performance evaluation for
  maintenance and overlay design.
• CEE 410 Traffic Engineering Fundamentals and
  Surveys (3 credits) General review of the
  fundamentals of traffic engineering, including
  their relationship to transportation operations
  management and planning, with special emphasis on
  traffic engineering field surveys and data
  analysis.

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Transportation courses at UW

• CEE 416 Urban Transportation Planning and Design
  (3 credits) Brief review of major issues in
  urban transportation planning. Planning process
  discussed and transportation models introduced.
  Uses a systems framework, including goals and
  objectives, evaluation, implementation, and
  monitoring. A design term project, individual or
  small groups, utilizes material presented on a
  contemporary problem.
• CEE 498B Transportation Logistics (3
  credits)Students who complete this course will
  gain an understanding of the logistics system,
  and the interaction between supply-chain
  management and freight transportation how goods
  are conveyed from production to consumption.
  Students will also gain a familiarity and
  facility with common methods used to analyze
  logistics problems, and the tools needed to
  understand current and future transportation
  choices in the transport of goods.
• CEE 412 Transportation Data Management (3
  credits)
• Introduction to modern concepts, theories, and
  tools for transportation data management and
  analysis. Applications of software tools for
  transportation data storage, information
  retrieval, knowledge discovery, data exchange,
  on-line information sharing, statistical
  analysis, system optimization and decision
  support.
• CEE 579 Advanced Traffic Detection Systems (3
  credits)
• Introduction to advanced tracking and detection
  technologies in transportation engineering
  including Global Positioning Systems (GPS),
  inductance loop detection systems, remote traffic
  microwave radar, computer-vision based
  technologies, and other emerging detection
  technologies with cutting-edge research in these
  areas.

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Contemporary Issues in Transportation

• The impact of rising fuel prices
• Changing fuel sources
• Reducing the environmental costs of
  transportation
• Resilience
• Security
• News stories

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• Civil Engineers not only design and build
  infrastructure, but plan and manage.
• Increasingly we will manage the infrastructure
  through the use of sensing technology and
  dynamic infrastructure.
• These strategies allow us to manage the
  infrastructure and demand for that infrastructure
  better.
• Better is cleaner, with less wasted fuel and
  time, cheaper?

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• Although the transportation system was designed
  by and is operated by humans, we do not
  understand its dynamics well.
• Large problem
• Many actors
• Dynamic
• Progress slowed by perceptions of research
• Data limited

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Marine Terminal Actors

• Steamship lines (APL, Cosco)
• Terminal Operators (MTC, SSA)
• Port Authorities (Port of Seattle)
• County Governments (Pierce County Terminal)
• City Governments (City of Seattle, Seattle DOT,
  WSDOT)
• Security agencies (DHS)
• Drayage drivers and Licensed Motor Carriers
• Importers or Shippers (WalMart)
• Freight forwarders and expeditors
• 3PLs or Logistics providers
• Customs brokers
• CBP
• Labor Unions (ILWU, Teamsters)
• Interest Groups (Waterfront Coallition)
• EPA
• Railroads

Own objectives and remuneration or incentive
schemes
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Marine Terminal Issues

• Environment
• Air quality
• Wetlands
• Water quality
• Security concerns
• Competitiveness
• Quality of life
• Federalism

Consideration at a system level
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Drayage Trucks
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What is the Clean Trucks Program?

• A proposal by the Ports of Los Angeles and Long
  Beach that would govern their relationships with
  Licensed Motor Carriers (LMCs)
• LMCs will need to obtain a concession from the
  ports to do business there
• LMCs must employ their drivers, currently most
  drayage drivers are owner/operators

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What is the Clean Trucks Program?

• Trucks will be charged a Transportation Impact
  Fee for every entry into the port (34) if the
  truck does not meet 2007 Environmental Protection
  Agency regulations
• Trucks will be required to have GPS units
• Trucks will be required to have RFID tags
• By 2012 all trucks will be required to meet 2007
  EPA regulations

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Official Goal of the CTP

• With the program in place, the ports should be
  able to move forward with their infrastructure
  plans to expand to a capacity of 42.5 million
  TEUs while meeting the Clean Air Action Plans
  goals
• Currently the ports moved about 16 million TEUs
  in 2006
• The Clean Air Action Plan will cut particulate
  matter (PM) pollution from all port-related
  sources by at least 47 percent within the next
  five years

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Other Objectives

• Transfer the burden of regulation from the ports
  to the LMCs (security, safety, environment)
• Increase transportation system efficiency
• Provide a mechanism for financing a technology
  investment at the port
• Improve working conditions for drayage drivers
  (estimate improvement from 12/hour to 20/hour)

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What is the threat?

• Southern California will
• Experience tighter environmental regulation
• Lose its position as the main US Port of Entry
  for goods from Asia
• Lose the associated jobs and economic activity
• By roughly 2025, that will result in the ability
  of the ports to support 300,000 to 600,000 new
  jobs that would be lost if that infrastructure
  cannot be built. John Husing

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Current Operations
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Anticipated Changes

• Change size of drayage fleet
• Employ drivers
• Reduce gate delay
• Smooth truck arrival pattern
• Reduce empty trips

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Full container destination
Full container origin
Port
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Full container destination
Full container origin
Port
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Queueing System
Stacks
Gate
Single versus double moves, wheeled versus
stacked storage
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Terminal Time Modeling
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M/D/1 Assumption
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Summary

• May not reduce overall delay.
• Implementation of the program may result in mild
  improvements through
• reduced gate delays,
• fleet efficiencies,
• increased driver tenure.
• The possibility of disruption or inadequate truck
  or driver supply or the cost of the program to
  the industry is certainly increased.
• Consistent with other transportation developments
  in the use of technology to manage the system
  both on the demand and supply side.
• System benefit requires transfer of cost.