Crystal Jones Office of Freight Management and Operations

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Crystal JonesOffice of Freight Managementand
Operations

• USDOT
• Federal Highway Administration
• October 2007

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Purpose and Desired Outcomes

• Purpose
• Provide an informational presentation on FHWAs
  roles at the border and initiatives to measure
  border performance
• Desired Outcomes
• Familiarization with the FHWA efforts to measure
  border crossing and delay
• Input and Feedback on future research how the
  TBWG and border stakeholders can use the data and
  information derived from the efforts

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FHWA - Office of Freight Management and
Operations Objectives

• Understand the magnitude and geography of
  freight moving on the nations transportation
  system, including international freight
• Develop strategies, analytical tools,
  institutional arrangements, and professional
  capacities for all levels of government to
  address freight movement
• Understand and promote the economic benefits of
  freight transportation
• Encourage innovative freight technology
  operations
• Enforce commercial vehicle size and weight
  requirements

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Strategic Objective - Global ConnectivityFacili
tate a more efficient domestic and global
transportation system that enables economic
growth and development

• Desired Outcomes
• Reduce/Remove transportation-related barriers to
  trade
• More efficient movement of cargo throughout the
  supply chain
• Goals
• To reduce travel time in key highway freight
  corridors
• To reduce delays of commercial vehicles processed
  at National Highway System border crossings
• Outcome Measures
• Travel Time and Reliability on Freight
  Significant Highways
• Border Crossing Time

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Using Technology to Measure Border Performance

• What?
• Use trucks as probes.
• Why?
• Provides a quantifiable basis to engage public
  and private sector and investigate and explore
  causes of delay.
• How?
• Partnership with American Transportation Research
  Institute, a satellite technology vendor, and
  motor carriers.
• Where?
• 25 major US interstates.
• Land border crossings.
• 5 US/Canada crossings.
• US/Mexico under development.

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Current Measures -

• Freight Significant Corridors
• Average Operating Speeds (entire Corridor)
• Travel Time Reliability (Buffer Index)
• Borders (US/Canada)
• Total Crossing Time
• Crossing Time Reliability (Buffer Index)

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25 Corridors
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Measures for different uses/users
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FPM Border Component (US/CN)

• Data Collection Began 7/01/05 for 5 Crossings
• Blaine (Pacific Highway) Blaine, WA
• Pembina Pembina, ND
• Ambassador Bridge Detroit, MI
• Peace Bridge Buffalo, NY
• Champlain Champlain, NY
• Effort looks at crossings as well as
  transportation network that supports the
  crossings

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Data Collection at Ambassador
4 US Approaches

• Michigan Route 3
• Interstate 75
• Interstate 94
• Interstate 96

3 CN Approaches

• Provincial 401
• ON Provincial 3
• E.C. Row EXPY

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What is travel time reliability?

• Consistency or dependability in travel times
  measured from
• Day-to-day and/or
• Across different times of day
• For Freight (for a trade lane, origin-destination
  pair, across the border)
• Not focused on typical delay (capacity-demand) so
  much as unexpected delay

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Five Principles (at least)

• Know your audience
• Dont worry about being original
• Perfect data does not exist
• Need more than just travel time/traffic dataknow
  the details
• Booths open
• Hours of Operation
• Volumes
• Security Level

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Perfect data does not exist

• Dont let the perfect be the enemy of the good
• What quality is good enough?
• Start using what you have and plan for
  improvements

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What quality is good enough?
1674
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What quality is good enough?
1788
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What quality is good enough?
1849
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What quality is good enough?
2007
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What quality is good enough?
2003
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What quality is good enough?
2007
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What quality is good enough?
2007
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Key Next Steps

• Develop a Web-based tool to disseminate data
  primary audiences are public transportation
  agencies (e.g. State DOTs) and Academia
• Directional
• Time of Day
• City Pairs
• Assess expanding beyond the interstate system
• Enhance data by adding additional vendors/fleets
• Partner with public agencies and universities to
  apply the results
• Decision Support Tools
• Trend Analysis
• Demand Modeling
• Forecasting Models
• Cost Benefit/Analysis
• Before and After Assessments
• Expand US/Cda Data Collection by up to 10
  crossings

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Conclusions
Performance Measurement WILL PROVIDE Border
freight performance measures that accurately
reflect what we accomplishing, in quantitative
terms YOUR INPUT AND STRATEGIES, ACTIONS and
TACTICS WILL PROVIDE measurable, time-based
targets that explicitly stipulates, also in
quantitative terms, what measure of performance
we expect and how we achieve results
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FHWA Office of Freight Management and Operations,
USDOT

• The success and growth in every business
  activity is dependent upon how an organization
  utilizes its critical data
• Anonymous
• http//www.ops.fhwa.dot.gov/freight
• Crystal Jones
• 202-366-2976
• Crystal.Jones_at_fhwa.dot.gov

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Additional information

• January 2006 report
• Travel Time Reliability Making It There On Time,
  All The Time
• http//www.ops.fhwa.dot.gov
• Contacts
• Crystal Jones, FHWA, 202-366-2976