FHWA Freight Performance Measures New York Workshop. Freight Performance Measures Program Background

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1 FHWA Freight Performance Measures New York Workshop Freight Performance Measures Program Background

2 FHWA Focus on System Performance for Freight Transportation How does freight movement affect congestion, infrastructure, safety, and the environment? How does congestion, delay, and cost affect freight movement? How do shifts in the economy, activity among regions, and global trade affect freight movement? How will policies affect freight movement and what are the consequences? Where can investments be made to improve operations or increase capacity?

3 What are Some Key Freight Performance Indicators from a National Perspective? Point-to-point travel times on selected freightsignificant highways Crossing times at international borders Condition of connectors between NHS and intermodal terminals Empty miles Cost of highway freight per hour / mile Cargo insurance costs Customer satisfaction Hours of delay per

4 Freight Significant National Highway Infrastructure Interstate System International Land Border Crossings and approaches Intermodal Connectors Port Terminals Rail Terminals Air Terminals

5 FHWA Measuring System Reliability FHWA Office of Operations has been researching congestion measurement for nearly a decade After developing many different measures from a variety of data sources, focused on travel time-based measures specifically, travel time reliability or variability in travel Why? Because it best reflected the potential for improvements from operational strategies Understandable to the public Can be used to measure both passenger and freight congestion

6 Some Trucking Facts 620,784 Registered Interstate Motor Carriers (10) 90.1% operate 6 or less trucks 97.1% operate 20 or less trucks $544.4 billion in freight revenue (82% of U.S. freight bill) 8.8 billion tons of freight (68% of total U.S. tonnage) 26 million trucks used for business purposes (08) 2.4 million class 8 trucks used for business purpose (08) Accounted for 92% of total ton-miles 6.8 million employees in truck related activities, excluding self employed 3.2 million truck drivers 80% of U.S. communities depend solely on truck deliveries

7 Background & Project History Early 1980s Deregulation and fierce competition 1986 Schneider National became first carrier to install two-way satellite communication systems in all 6,000 of its over-the-road trucks : Research found that such data had promising applications 2001: FHWA, ATRI, others: Sought to test use of data to develop performance measures of truck travel on the interstate system. Anticipated result: To provide data and analytical tools to support operations research of speed/congestion measures and delay along the interstate system.

8 Sponsored by Federal Highway Administration (2002-Present) Customized Processing System/Methods for Producing Freight Performance Measures Multiple Industry Data Sources 7+ Years of Continuous Data Billions of Unique Truck Positions Received & Processed Annually Several Hundred Thousand Individual Trucks in the Population

9 Attributes of the Data ID TIME Lon Lat Other POL23GXB 4/2/ :06: X LLBLPXE 4/2/ :10: X OP11RE 4/7/ :40: X BXLESXB 4/8/ :41: X X1OBLPE 4/8/ :41: X

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16 Results Several systems have been created to collect, analyze and disseminate information to the private and public sector related to: Needed highway improvements Effectiveness of highway investment Highway congestion levels Economic/freight activity

17 Key Measures Average Speed: Spot Mean Speed and Space Mean Speed Reliability Delay at U.S./Canada border crossings Freight Flows

18 Data Processing Walkthrough Multiple Hardware/Software Applications Data management software, tools and techniques. Data processing software, tools and techniques. National corridor data analysis is conducted using a customized application that uses: A relational database management system Geographic information system software

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