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Title: Florence Area Freight Study


1
Florence Area Freight Study
  • June 17, 2008

2
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

3
Florence County Planning Services
  • comprehensive planning
  • Transportation
  • Land Use
  • Economy
  • Natural Resources
  • track air quality
  • transportation planning
  • Florence Area Transportation Study (FLATS)

4
Opportunities
  • Southeast Diesel Collaborative
  • National Cooperative Freight Research Program
  • National Highway Institute
  • FLATS
  • Pee Dee Council of Governments
  • County Transportation Committee

5
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

6
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

7
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

8
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

9
Partners
  • Brono Transportation
  • Johnson Controls
  • Jones Brothers
  • McCall Farms
  • OAC Trucking
  • QVC
  • South East Express
  • Southeastern Freight Line
  • Thompson Transportation
  • UPS
  • Wilco
  • Weskay LLC

10
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

11
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)

12
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

13
Brainstorming
  • Congestion Traffic restrictions/ regulation
  • Safety
  • Coordinate land use and transportation
  • Survey logistic managers
  • Notification of repaving/ road construction

14
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

15
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

16
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

17
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)

18
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
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