Upper Midwest Freight Corridor Study

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Upper Midwest Freight Corridor Study

• Project Overview
• June 3, 2003
• Ernie Wittwer, MRUTC

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Study Goals

• Synthesize existing efforts
• Build coalition
• Document conditions
• Understand needs
• Understand administrative constraints

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Corridor Map
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Study Topics

• Performance metrics
• Synthesis of related projects
• Demand
• Capacity
• Administrative

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Performance Metrics

• What defines good freight performance?
• Approach
• Workshop sessions
• Survey DOTs, MPOs, Cities
• Survey shippers and carriers
• Review other studies

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Synthesis of Related Projects

• What can we learn from other corridors
• Survey other corridor studies
• Review reports and websites
• Interview participants
• Whats going on in the region?
• Interview states and MPOs
• Catalog other efforts

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Demand

• Collect existing data from DOTs and MPOs
• Organize and catalog data
• Analyze and integrate data
• Interpolate to fill voids
• Estimate current and future demands

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Capacity

• Review MPO and DOT work on capacity
• Integrate capacity and demand information
• Identify potential capacity problems

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Administrative

• What regulatory issues constrain freight?
• Probable focus areas
• Haz-mats
• Size-weight
• Procedural issues

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Research Team

• University of Toledo
• Jiwan Gupta
• Peter Lindquist
• Mark Vonderembse

• University of Illinois at Chicago
• Kazuya Kawamura
• Sue McNeil

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Research Team (cont.)

• University of Wisconsin / MRUTC
• Teresa Adams
• Travis Gordon
• Ernie Wittwer

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Roles
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State/Provincial Representatives
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Project Governance
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Budget
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Reports

• Metrics
• Synthesis of other regional work
• Synthesis work in region

• Demand
• Capacity
• Haz mats
• Size and weight

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Workshops/Meetings
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Communications

• Website uppermidwestfreight.org
• Quarterly electronic newsletter
• Mississippi Valley
• Ohio Transportation Engineering Conference
• Transportation Research Board Meetings
• Invite Us!

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Upper Midwest Freight Corridor Study

• Workshop Objectives and Process
• June 3, 2003
• Sue McNeil, UTC

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Objectives

• Develop context
• Transfer knowledge
• Establish a basis for future communication
• To gather information related to specific topic
  areas
• Demand issues and data availability
• Capacity issues and data availability
• Performance metrics
• Administrative obstacles to freight movement in
  the region

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Participants

• 2 sessions each with 3 parallel workshops in
  Toledo
• 3 remote sessions
• Minnesota
• Wisconsin
• Chicago

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Plan
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General Format Toledo sites

• Introductions 10 minutes
• Workshop overview 10 minutes
• Discussion 1 hour 10 minutes

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Ground Rules

• Listen
• Contribute
• If you have something to communicate to us and
  you dont get a chance to say it, drop us an
  email note or call.