Public Sector Perspective

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Public Sector Perspective

• Suzann Gad
• Ohio Department of Transportation

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Purpose for Presentation

• Identify the public/private DISCONNECTS
• Information/understanding
• Decision making process
• Timetable for actions
• Provide private sector freight stakeholders w/
  understanding of public sector perspective

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Goal MAKE THE LINK

• Present a strategy specific recommendations to
  produce the win/win for freight
• Public sector has the authority ability to
  address
• Improves freights bottom line

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DISCONNECTS - Information

• Volumes, growth, routes, modes split why off
  rail onto road
• Importance of time (J-in-T, delay from
  congestion, crashes, routine repair rebuilding)
• Impact from condition of roads (wear tear)

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DISCONNECT Decision Making

• Moving to rational decision making
• Performance measure/quantitative based
• Safety
• Maintaining existing system (PCR)
• Congestion (LOS)
• Customer / Passenger focused they vote

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DISSCONNECT - Timetables

• Government Long time frames
• Politically acceptable
• Environmentally acceptable
• Design to standards
• Building can cause disruption slow surrounding
  traffic

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PUBLIC PERSPECTIVE

• Funding
• levels of approval
• how on what we can spend
• Politics all politics is local

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Todays Situation

• States government agencies are beginning
  freight data collection analysis
• Recognizing freight volumes growth
• You have our attention

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Truck Freight Flows, All CommoditiesAll truck
types highway freight density in tons
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Freight Tonnage Growth by Region, 1998-2020 At
Current Growth Rates, Freight Tonnage Grow by
Nearly70 Percent Over the Next Decades
Central Region68
Northeast Region63
West Region85
South Region78
Source FHWA Freight Analysis Framework Project
Reebie Associates 1998 data (1st
Approximation)WEFA economic data and forecasts
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Air-Freight Origins and DestinationsAll
commodities, domestic airport-to-airport traffic,
in tons
Origins
Destinations
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Logistics Expenditures and GDPAfter a Long
Improvement, Expenditures Have Stalled at About
10 Percent
Percentage of GDP
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Administrative
16
Transportation
Inventory
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Source Cass/ProLogis 10th Annual State of
Logistics Report, 1998.
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Linking Ohio to the Global EconomyOhios Shares
of National Freight Tons and Value by Mode
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Linking Ohio to the Global EconomyThrough
Freight-Truck Tonnage
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Improving Ohios Freight Corridors Ohio Highway
Bottlenecks with V/SF Ratio gt 1.0Based on HPMS
Sample Sections Data Covering 20 Percent of Ohio
Roadways
Example I-75 Bottleneck at Dayton North of US 35
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LINKING PUBLIC PRIVATE the win/win strategy

• Figuring out the link what public can use
  government on that will help haulers govt.
  achieve our mission
• SAFER
• SMOOTHER
• FASTER

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Recommendations Govt Focus

• Time reliability Safety
• Congestion -Bottlenecks reoccurring
• Congestion - Incidents reduce remove
  quickly
• Inter-modal Connectors
• Shifting modes smoother faster
• State to State (faster fewer reasons to stop)
• Smoother pavements
• Freight customer satisfactions identify other
  performance measures for freight

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Strategy

• States locals continue data collection
  analysis
• Educate Decision Makers
• Make high-level presentations to broad based
  political industry leadership
• Public/private sector issues discussion
• To learn from each other
• To develop partnerships
• Explore develop partnerships with neighboring
  states
• Define projects which address freight needs and
  advance government mission (safer, smoother,
  faster)