Congestion Mitigation Through Improved Freight Efficiency:

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Congestion Mitigation Through Improved Freight
Efficiency Partnering with Business for a
Positive Solution Paul A. Belella Principal Del
can Corporation October 17, 2007
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Contents

• Congestion What Were Up Against
• How Weve Chosen to Deal With It and Why
  Thats Not Enough
• A Positive Alternative
• Where We Go From Here

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What Were Up Against

• Weve all heard the statistics
• Congestion at capacity bottlenecks represents 40
  percent of all congestion delay
• In 1982, 35 percent of the major road system was
  congested by 2003 that figure rose to 65 percent
• By 2020, 29 percent of urban NHS routes will be
  congested or exceed capacity for much of the day
  42 percent during peak periods
• Actual travel times routinely exceed ideal travel
  times by 20 to 60 percent
• Expenditures for new capacity are at 4 percent of
  whats needed
• Trade traffic is expected to increase by 85
  percent between 2003 and 2020
• Domestic freight is expected to increase by 70
  percent between 2003 and 2020
• 75 percent of freight traffic in US is carried on
  highways
• In January 2006, bottlenecks were causing
  truckers 8 billion annually
• This congestion is a direct threat to our global
  competitiveness and economic vitality

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How Weve Chosen to Deal With It

• Everyone agrees that something must be done, we
  just cant all agree on what that is
• Weve got Creative Financing
• Private toll roads and partnerships
• Loan programs and infrastructure banks
• Weve got Intelligent Transportation Systems
• ATMS signal control ramp metering event
  management etc
• ATIS navigation aids traffic info sites etc
• ITS/CVO weigh station pre-screening location
  tracking RFID etc
• Weve got Travel Demand Management
• HOT lanes Congestion pricing
• Truck-only facilities
• Unfortunately, too often we treat freight as an
  adversary, rather than a key component in the
  economic engine

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Why Thats Not Enough

• The trucking reality
• Trucks will always be needed to complete the
  overwhelming majority of first- and last-mile
  goods movement
• Trucks provide essential flexibility and speed
• Depending upon the type of operation, as much as
  50 percent of truck trips are empty
• Key freight axioms
• A full truck thats moving commerce in action
  economic vitality
• A full truck thats stationary pure cost
  economic harm
• An empty truck thats moving pure cost
  congestion costs for everyone
• Pay-as-you-go facilities new direct cost gtgt
  benefit
• Reliable performance reduced costs
  wide-ranging benefits
• We need to encourage efficiency, rather than
  penalize inefficiency there is a difference

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A Positive Alternative Working in Partnership
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A Positive Alternative The IFTWG Example

• Industry and government working together
• An ongoing public-private partnership (since
  1998)
• All modes are involved and engaged
• Railroads
• Steamship lines
• Trucking companies
• Terminal operators
• Technology providers
• Government agencies
• Key objectives
• Pursue solutions to common challenges
• Promote inclusiveness and collaboration
• Creatively apply new, emerging, and existing
  technologies
• Catalyze adoption of standards and best practices

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A Positive Alternative The C-TIP Example

• The premise
• Coordinated public agency and business truck trip
  reduction solution
• Encouraging business to expand collaboration
• Extracting business and public benefits
• Key components
• A web services-based suite of applications to
  coordinate cross-towns
• Low-cost linkages between ATIS, freight
  dispatchers, and drivers
• Enhanced monitoring of network conditions using
  live freight data
• Improved access to information regarding
  shipments of concern
• Applicability
• Applicable anywhere that multiple repetitive
  intermodal trips occur
• Particularly valuable in and around major freight
  centers
• Through the IFTWG, 4 RRs, 3 trucking companies,
  a terminal operator, and 5 agencies are working
  together

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A Positive Alternative Applying C-TIP with Rail
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A Positive Alternative Applying C-TIP with Rail
C-TIP Server

• The Scenario
• Two loads to be transferred between two rail
  terminals one in each direction

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• Two carriers have trucks that are available to
  pull each load - which should take the loads?

• The carriers connect to the C-TIP web server to
  request the loads, and C-TIP assigns both to one
  carrier

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• Data from KCScout provides roadway conditions and
  travel times

• With this data, and C-TIP, the railroads and
  carriers collaborate to avoid wasted trips

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A Positive Alternative Applying C-TIP with Rail

• FHWA conducted a case study to identify the
  potential congestion mitigation benefits of C-TIP
• For Kansas City, C-TIP has the potential to
• Reduce intermodal truck trips by 22
• Reduce cross-town and local delivery truck trips
  by more than 1,500 per week (approximately 82,000
  annually)
• Provide benefits equivalent to removing nearly
  245,000 personal vehicle trips annually
• Reduce annual truck VMT by more than 1 million
• Applying similar effects to Chicago, C-TIP may
• Reduce annual truck trips by 1.35 million
  (equivalent to more than 4 million personal
  vehicle trips)

Based on average trip length of 12.5 miles
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A Positive Alternative Applying C-TIP Near a Port
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A Positive Alternative Applying C-TIP Near a Port
C-TIP Server

• The Scenario
• Two loads to be picked up at Dundalk Terminal by
  6 PM It is now 530 PM

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• One dispatcher has 2 trucks in the area, another
  has one which two should take the loads?

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• Data from MMTIS informs them of conditions and
  travel times

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• With this data, and C-TIP, they are able to
  coordinate regarding which trucks to send to make
  the time window and avoid a wasted trip

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Where We Go from Here

• Obtain funding for Kansas City demonstration
• Deploy system
• Conduct operational test evaluation
• Explore applying the C-TIP concept in a Port City
• Formulate a partnership Identify needs and
  expectations
• Adapt concept of operations to local conditions
• Conduct pilot deployment
• Identify other mutually beneficial regional
  options
• Establish a body of professionals to define
  opportunities
• Promote creativity and collaboration to evaluate
  alternatives
• Adopt a new mindset towards freight
• Remember that more freight economic development
• Remember that more efficient freight improved
  quality of life
• Remember that more collaboration with freight
  better solutions