Title: Freight Issues and Policy Options Memphis Freight Planning Conference October 2, 2001 Gary Maring, FHWA
1Freight Issues and Policy OptionsMemphis
Freight Planning ConferenceOctober 2, 2001Gary
Maring, FHWA
2Objective
- Freight Trends/Issues
- What have we Learned from Outreach Events and
Freight Analysis efforts - Policy Development toward Reauthorization
3Emerging Freight Trends and Issues
- Markets/Logistics (demand)
- From national markets to global markets
- From a manufacturing to a service economy
- Moving to customer dictated just-in-time delivery
system - Carriers/Transportation Systems (supply)
- Increased DOD reliance on commercial freight
system/National security implications for
transportation - From modal fragmentation to cross-modal
coordination - From system construction to system optimization
- Public Policy
- From economic deregulation to safety regulation
- From modal to multi-modal surface transportation
policy - Increased environmental accountability
4More vehicles- More delay
- Vehicle travel up 72Road Miles up 1
- 1980-1998
5Freight Volumes Growing- Projected doubling by
2020
6Many Public/Private Partners in an Intermodal
Movement
Infrastructure Provider and manager- e.g.Traffic
Mgmt.
Port Authority
RR1 Chicago
Port
Railroad
Drayage
Infrastructure Traffic Mgmt
RR2 Chicago
Consignee
Railroad
Drayage
Dest. City
7National Highway System Intermodal Connectors -
Infrastructure Constraints
- NHS Connectors
- Poor physical condition
- Poor geometrics
- orphan status
- inadequate coordination of investment strategies
8Freight Transportation Perspectives State and MPO
focus is regional and local private sector focus
is increasingly national and global
Private Sector(Shippers, Carriers)
Global
National
Regional
Local
Public Sector(States, MPOs)
9Highway Flows of International Freight Moving
into and From the Port of Charleston
10DOT Freight Outreach Events
11What were Hearing
- Solutions will involve new capacity coupled with
improved operations - Plan and operate the system as a system, not as
individual modes/elements - Improve intermodal connections to offer choice,
connectivity, interoperability - Federal leadership needed given multiple modes,
jurisdictions, and private stakeholders
international considerations, and national
security implications - Improve State and MPO planning and programming
process for freight - Support multistate coalitions to deal with
corridor and regional trade/transportation issues - Enable public private financing and other
innovative finance approaches
12Future Options Toward Reauthorization
13Policy Framework - the 4-Is
- We need to strengthen institutional arrangements
to coordinate decision making and implementation - We must expand the use of information/ technology
to improve freight operations and security - We must work closely with State and local
partners, other agencies, and the private sector,
to improve infrastructure decision making and
finance needed improvements - We must ensure that the US trade transport system
supports international trade development
14Freight Transportation Problem Solving
- The geography of freight...three key problem
areas - International gateways
- Multi-jurisdictional cooperation and finance
- Statewide and metropolitan freight programs
- Define the problemidentify institutional and
financing options to address each area -
15Top Gateways for International Freight Exports
and imports in tons
16International Gateways- Air and Water
GatewayProblems
- We have inefficient system connectivity
interoperabilityconnectors are orphansthere is
a mismatch of freight benefits and coststough to
get local jurisdictions to invest when benefits
are perceived to flow elsewhere - Because of these compounded problems, state and
local governments are challenged to cope with the
magnitude and complexity of financing
international gateways
17International Gateways -NAFTA BorderProblems
- We have a fragmented institutional approach for
addressing NAFTA borders - There is an overall lack of funding to address
problems - We are constrained in combining and leveraging
existing State, national international sources
of funding - Cross border coordination is getting better, but
has a long way to go
18International Gateways-possible approaches
- Create a National Freight Advisory Council
provide continuous advice on gateways of
national/international significance - Enable special authorities to deal with gateways
and border financingAlameda Corridor JPA,
binational authorities - Create and support interagency and bi-national
border coordinating mechanismsJWC - Expand TEA-21 innovative finance options for
freightemphasize co-mingling of funds - Modify TEA-21 borders/corridors program
- Create binational investment banksexpand NAFTA
NADBANK eligibility to transportation
19Multistate/multijurisdictional Organizations
- I-95 Corridor Coalition
- I-35 Trade Corridor
- LATTS
-
20Multi-State/Multi-Jurisdictional Challenges
- Freight does not recognize traditional
jurisdictional boundariesStates, MPO,
countriescurrent efforts are ad hoc - Coalitions lack the requisite authority to
sustain and fund improvements - Coalitions are viewed by some as just another
layer of government - Building coalitions, providing funding, and
rationalizing their influence with state and
local jurisdictions is a challenge
21Multi-Jurisdictional IssuesPossible approaches
- Enable jurisdictions to go beyond current
boundariesbut dont mandate their creation - Create Federal authority to enable multi-modal
and multi-jurisdictional compactsprovide
financial capacities to create new money - Provide Federal grants for multistate planning,
technical support, staffing, - Enable Federal loans and credits for
multijurisdictional capital improvements
22Statewide Metropolitan Freight Planning and
Programming
- Inadequate coordination among Federal DOT
agencies - Transportation planning process is not freight
friendlyfunding constrained not all freight
modes representedlack of data and analytical
capability staffing issues and limited
coordination with the private sector - Disconnect between transportation planning and
economic development - Difference in the time horizon and geographic
perspective between transportation planning
agencies and the private sector
23Statewide Metropolitan FreightPossible
approaches
- Ask State Governor to designate appropriate
freight institution(s) include economic
development prioritize freight
improvementsaddress public-private risk sharing
roles - Reform the planning processbring multimodal
freight interests to the tableexpand our ability
to co-mingle private and public money - Create a One DOT freight planning approach
?intermodal planning fund - Evaluate freight set asides eligibility changes
with existing programs
24Toward Surface Transportation Reauthorization-
Freight elements?
Efficiency
Equity
Effectiveness
1991 - 97
1998 - 03
2004 - ??
25FHWA Office of Freight Management and Operations,
USDOT
- http//www.ops.fhwa.dot.gov/freight
- Gary Maring
- Director
- gary.maring_at_fhwa.dot.gov