KYTC Freight Planning

for the

OPPM MeetingOPPM Meeting

on

September 8, 2004

by

Rob Bostrom, P.E.

Division of Division of

Multimodal ProgramsMultimodal Programs

Presentation Overview• Freight Planning

Team – Purpose– Members– Accomplishments– Upcoming activities

• Other Freight Planning Activities– Research– Multimodal– Modeling

Freight Planning Team Background

• Highway Capacity Crisis

Freight Planning Team Background • Coordination difficulties

– Transportation Cabinet• Traffic Operations• Planning• Multimodal Programs• Aviation

– KY Trans. Center– Justice Cabinet (Veh. Reg.)– FHWA– Public Sector– IAP defunct

• Truck Safety• Intermodal Issues

Freight Planning Team Members

• Members– Brent Sweger, Rob Bostrom,

J.R. Ham, Nancy Miracle, Steve Ross and Bernadette Dupont

• Different expertise– Multimodal, modeling, MPO,

IAP continuity, rail, federal connection

Freight Team Background:Vision/Goals/Objectives

• Nimble team which helps coordinate freight planning activities for KYTC. Form larger task teams as needed.

• Goals– Education & awareness– Training– Address freight capacity and safety problems– Facilitate needed research

Accomplishments• Web site

– http://transportation.ky.gov/Multimodal/KYTC_Freight.htm

• Freight newsletter• FHWA/partnering• Training

– Talking Freight– Kentucky Freight workshop– Tennessee Freight Planning Workshop– Partnering Conference/Managed lanes

• Tools– HERS– Geofreight– FAF

Upcoming Freight Planning Team Activities

• Freight capacity – Research– Solutions

• Training– Freight Summit in spring– Tools

• Second phase– Focused team meetings (topic oriented)– Task team formation

KY Freight Planning Activities• New Research

– Commercial Vehicle Monitoring station (weigh station) optimization; used KYSTM to assess trips using weigh stations and make recommendations on where to place mid-state CVM locations

– Development of strategic plan for incident management

– Facilitate automatic identification of commercial vehicles.

– Development of strategic plan for improving freight capacity on interstate corridors

– Riverports

KY Freight Planning Activities• Ongoing Research

– 1996 Commercial Vehicle Information Systems & Networks (CVISN)

– ARTIMIS & TRIMARC– Kentucky’s First Virtual Weigh Station– Advantage I-75

KY Freight Planning Activities• Completed Research

– Identification of Truck/Intermodal Facilities

KY Freight Planning Activities• Multimodal

– KY Statewide Rail Plan http://transportation.ky.gov/multimodal/railsystems.htm

– Rail/riverport position

– Riverports• Planning study

• Brochure: http://transportation.ky.gov/multimodal/pdf/riverportsbrochure.pdf

– Ferry Operations http://www.kytc.state.ky.us/Multimodal/ferry.htm

– Dept. of Aeronautics http://www.kytc.state.ky.us/Aeronautics/home.htm

– Transportation Delivery (Public Transportation) http://www.kytc.state.ky.us/otd/default.asp

KY Freight Planning Activities• Traffic Modeling/Forecasting w/ trucks

– Combined Cincinnati-Dayton model• North-South Initiative (I-75 Corridor between greater

Cincinnati and Dayton)• Analyzed truck lanes and other freight solutions

– Kentucky Statewide Traffic Model (KYSTM)• Built in 1997 for I-66 Corridor Study• Truck purpose

– Various models• Bowling Green• Simpson County

KY Statewide Traffic Model • In use

since 1975

• Most important recent use was I-66

KYSTM Update

• More accurate truck assignments

• Rail layer

• Intermodal hubs Identified

• True GIS

• Other new applications

Conclusion• KYTC Freight Planning Activities

– New Freight Team

– Purpose, accomplishments & coming activities

– Decision-maker awareness/buy-in/guidance

• Continuation of Traditional Freight Planning Activities– Research

– Multimodal

– Truck Modeling

• OPPM: Give the team some feedback!• Thank you for your attention.