Importance of Railroad,Trucking, and Warehousing Data in Public Sector Decision Making

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1 Importance of Railroad,Trucking, and Warehousing Data in Public Sector Decision Making Presented to TRB Workshop on Measuring the Transportation System from a Supply Chain Perspective Gill V. Hicks Cambridge Systematics, Inc. July 11,

2 Data Needed to Support Infrastructure Development, Assess Priorities and Impacts Maintain regional competitiveness Reduce congestion and pollution Promote job creation and retention Shippers have choices: without adequate infrastructure in SCAG region, cargo could divert to other ports.

3 How Can Data Help? Transportation planning is not enough. Understanding logistics is more and more important. Understanding how shippers make routing and siting decisions. Understanding how carriers serve customers. Understanding markets (e.g., IPI, transload, domestic). Location of distribution centers, rail yards and other logistics facilities in relation to rail and road system. Trip generation and routing: facility planning and impact assessment. Economic benefits.

4 Impact of International Trade Through San Pedro Bay Ports, 2008 Trade Value: $287 Billion* Jobs: 3.37 million* Northwest Trade value: $3.9B Jobs: 48,000 Great Plains Trade value: $22B Jobs: 258,800 Great Lakes Trade value: $59B Jobs: 693,000 Atlantic Seaboard Trade value: $26.3B Jobs: 253,200 Southwest Trade value: $94.2B Jobs: 1,163,600 South Central Trade value: $39B Jobs: 468,800 Southeast Trade value: $40.9B Jobs: 480,300 Source: BST Associates, 2007 * Includes Alaska and Hawaii

5 UP Corridor use fees paid by railroads ($21.60/TEU) Transload boxes not charged Increase in transloading reduces ACTA revenue TL ICTF

6 San Pedro Bay Imports by Major Market Segments, Import Loads (TEUs) in 2011: 7,091,732 Inland Point Intermodal (IPI): 38% On-Dock 25% Off-Dock 13% Transload: 40% To Rail 27% To Truck 13% Local without intent to transload: 22% Source: Cambridge Systematics, Inc. and Starboard Alliance LLC 6

7 Ports of Los Angeles & Long Beach Marine Terminal Gate Surveys Year 2010 LATC Los Angeles Downtown Hobart/East LA Industry San Bernardino Riverside Norwalk ICTF Anaheim Ports Area Ports and nearby area Santa Ana 12% : Ports & nearby area 30% : Gateway cities area 20% : off-dock yards 33% : rest of the SCAG region <5% : out of state truck trips 7

8 I-710 Corridor Four exclusive truck lanes Ten general purpose lanes $5.58 billion DEIR Available Truck tolls Modeling of truck movements

9 East-West Freight Corridor ($15.3B) I-15 Truck Lanes to Barstow Preferred alignment Alt #1 UPRR adjacent to San Jose Creek to SR-60 I-710 Truck Lanes to Ports of LA & LB 9

10 10 Total Occupied Warehousing Facilities

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12 Warehouse Data How much warehouse square footage is currently being used to store/process portrelated and non-port related cargo? How much warehousing will be required in 2035? Where will new facilities be located? What infrastructure (highway and rail) will be needed to support these facilities? How will traffic flows be affected? 12

13 Planning Tools Need Data QuickTrip : estimates # of container terminal truck trips (loads, empties, chassis, bobtails by time of day). Train Builder : allocates IPI, transload, and pure domestic containers/trailers to rail yards, builds intermodal trains of various lengths, assigns trains to tracks. At Grade : estimates grade crossing delays on all main line tracks. Heavy Duty Truck Model: estimates truck traffic by truck type by highway link.

14 Intermodal Rail Yards Southern California International Gateway (SCIG) Intermodal Container Transfer facility (ICTF) Modernization Each project expected to cost about $500 million, with capacity of 1.5 million lifts per year each.

15 Grade Separations 68 projects $5.3 billion

16 Improving Mobility for Trucks and Autos Doing Nothing: Rising Truck Volumes 16/45 9/22 19/43 23/43 14/35 24/44 20/43 26/44 34/55 24/53 24/41 17/31 12/27 26/31 15/ Daily Trucks (bi-directional)/2035 Two-Way Daily Trucks * numbers in thousands (rounded) 16

17 Truck Bottleneck Relief $11.9 Billion (excluding I-710 and East West Freight Corridor truck lanes) 39 separate projects throughout the region

18 Conclusions Data required to support on-going planning and engineering efforts. Requires cooperation from public and private sectors. Public needs better understanding of logistics. Private sector needs to partner with public in educating the public about the importance of freight.