Discussion of Truck Size and Weight and Highway Productivity Research

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Discussion of Truck Size and Weight and Highway
Productivity Research
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National Cooperative Freight Research Program

• Review and Analysis of Freight Transportation
  Markets and Relationships
• Impacts of Public Policy on the Freight
  Transportation System
• Performance Measures for Freight Transportation
• Identifying and Using Low-Cost and Quickly
  Implementable Ways to Address Freight-System
  Mobility Constraints
• Framework and Tools for Estimating Benefits of
  Specific Freight Network Investment Needs
• Freight-Demand Modeling to Support Public-Sector
  Decision Making
• Institutional Arrangements in the Freight
  Transportation System
• Separation of Vehicles---CMV Only Lanes

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National Cooperative Freight Research Program -
2008

• Identification and Evaluation of Freight Demand
  Factors
• Specifications for Freight Transportation Data
  Architecture
• Developing High Productivity Truck Corridors
• Truck Drayage Practices
• Understanding Urban Goods Movements
• Representing Freight in Air Quality and
  Greenhouse Gas Models
• North American Marine Highway Operations

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National Cooperative Highway Research Program
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Current NCHRP Research Related to Truck Size
Weight

• Project 8-63 Review of Canadian Experience with
  Large Commercial Motor Vehicles
• Objective
• The objective of this study is to review and
  summarize the most current information on the
  Canadian experience with the changes in truck
  size and weight limits and to evaluate the
  potential applicability of this experience to
  size and weight limits in the United States.

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2008 Annual MeetingSession 502Critical Issues
Facing Freight Part 3

• Are Highways Failing to Enable a Seamless
  Intermodal Supply Chain?

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Relative Growth in Modal Operating Equipment
Productivity
Percent Change
Source Wilbur Smith Associates
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Engineering Perspective on Enhancing the Highway
Element of the Supply Chain
C. Michael Walton, Ph.D., P.E. The University of
Texas at Austin
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European Heavy Vehicles

• TRB Annual Meeting 2008Session 502Critical
  Issues Facing Freight (part 3)European Heavy
  Vehicles
• by
• Jørgen Christensen
• Chief Counsellor
• Danish Road Directorate

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American Gypsum CompanyPresentation
toTransportation Research BoardWashington
, DCJanuary 15, 2008

• Wayne Johnson
• Director of Logistics
• Dallas, TX
• 214-530-5620
• wayne.johnson_at_americangypsum.com

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TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH BOARD

• HIGHWAYS
• SESSION 502
• TONY FURST
• DIRECTOR
• OFFICE OF FREIGHT MANAGEMENT OPERATIONS, FHWA

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Session Summary

• Potential productivity gains from TSW are
  significant
• The engineering of infrastructure for larger
  vehicles has been extensively studied
• Effect of larger trucks on congestion
• European research approach continuous approach
  to optimize productivity
• Reform of truck user fees via technology
• Enforcement must be a key element

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Truck Size and Weight Co-sponored Sessions
Transportation and Energy

• Session 274 Part 1 Transportation Demand in a
  Growing Ethanol Market
• Session 309 Part 2 Alternative Fuels
  Investments and the Impact on Rural
  Transportation
• Session 359
• Part 3 Ethanol Implications for the Railroad
  Industry

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Traditional Grain Export Supply Chain
(1960-1990s)
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Current Grain Export Supply Chain (1990s -
current)
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Emerging Grain Export Supply Chain
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Session 726 Safety and Productivity of Large
Commercial Vehicles

• Analysis Cost-Recovery Optimization Methodology
  for a Fixed-Class Truck Tolling Structure Alison
  J. Conway C. Michael Walton, University of
  Texas, Austin
• Commercial Vehicle Remotely Operated Compliance
  Stations in Florida
• Hesham Mahgoub, South Dakota State
  UniversityAmr A. Oloufa, Sami Spahi,
  University of Central Florida
• Longer Combination Vehicles and CANAMEX Trade
  Corridor Understanding Their Safety Performance
  Relative to Other Articulated Trucks Jonathan
  Regehr, Jeannette Montufar and Garreth Rempel,
  University of Manitoba, Canada

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AT055 Call for Papers

• Charging of higher productivity and
  specially-permitted vehicle operations
• Innovations in highway freight productivity
  through advancements in highway facility
  operations, private sector optimization
  strategies, and innovative concepts for new
  facility designs
• Commercial vehicle energy use and emission
  production
• Innovations in truck traffic exposure measurement
  and estimation

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2009 Freight Day Moving Freight Through Global
Change

• Spotlight Sessions Energy Climate Change
• Where are carbon reductions to be found in
  freight supply chains?
• How should reductions in carbon be measured?
• Effects of Climate Change on the Physical
  Transportation System What Are the Risks?
• How Would Supply Chains Respond to 8 per Gallon
  Diesel?

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AT055 Problem Statements in Development

• Roundabout design for trucks
• Acceleration lane requirements for larger trucks
• The design of a comprehensive heavy vehicle count
  system
• The cost of illegal operations on non-interstate
  facilities

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Thank You!

• Mark Berndt
• Wilbur Smith Associates
• 651-290-0559
• mberndt_at_wilbursmith.com