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Title: Freight Issues and Policy Options Memphis Freight Planning Conference October 2, 2001 Gary Maring, FHWA


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Freight Issues and Policy OptionsMemphis
Freight Planning ConferenceOctober 2, 2001Gary
Maring, FHWA
2
Objective
  • Freight Trends/Issues
  • What have we Learned from Outreach Events and
    Freight Analysis efforts
  • Policy Development toward Reauthorization

3
Emerging 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

4
More vehicles- More delay
  • Vehicle travel up 72Road Miles up 1
  • 1980-1998

5
Freight Volumes Growing- Projected doubling by
2020
6
Many 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
7
National Highway System Intermodal Connectors -
Infrastructure Constraints
  • NHS Connectors
  • Poor physical condition
  • Poor geometrics
  • orphan status
  • inadequate coordination of investment strategies

8
Freight 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)
9
Highway Flows of International Freight Moving
into and From the Port of Charleston
10
DOT Freight Outreach Events
11
What 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

12
Future Options Toward Reauthorization
13
Policy 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

14
Freight 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

15
Top Gateways for International Freight Exports
and imports in tons
16
International 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

17
International 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

18
International 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

19
Multistate/multijurisdictional Organizations
  • I-95 Corridor Coalition
  • I-35 Trade Corridor
  • LATTS

20
Multi-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

21
Multi-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

22
Statewide 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

23
Statewide 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

24
Toward Surface Transportation Reauthorization-
Freight elements?
Efficiency
Equity
Effectiveness
1991 - 97
1998 - 03
2004 - ??
25
FHWA Office of Freight Management and Operations,
USDOT
  • http//www.ops.fhwa.dot.gov/freight
  • Gary Maring
  • Director
  • gary.maring_at_fhwa.dot.gov
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