bruce de terra chief, office of system and freight planning division of transportation planning...

Bruce de TerraChief, Office of System and Freight Planning

Division of Transportation Planning

California Department of Transportation

California Freight Mobility

California Freight Mobility - June 2011

To Infinity and Beyond

California – a land of dreamers, visionaries and doers.

Space Shuttle Endeavour, our most expensive freight mode, final landing at the California Science Center in L.A.

There is a transportation future, help invent that future.

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Bruce’s View The Truth

Transportation is a corner-stone of every empire, multi-national business & power region that has ever existed. It is perhaps the only common denominator among them.

Caltrans and our planning work are essential to California’s future.

Either we do that work, or someone else will.

We’ve got to have fun while doing our jobs well.

Presentation Topics

California Freight System Overview

Caltrans Freight Program Activities

Freight System Overview

Seaports

Railroads

Trucking

Intermodal Facilities

Air Freight

Impacts

Got TEU?Twenty-Foot Equivalent Unit

Ships – 11,000 (Panamax 4,500),Trains 240 & Trucks 1

12 Seaports – an Evolving SystemLos Angeles - #1 in TEUs nationally

Long Beach - #2 in TEUs nationally Combined, # 5 in world

Oakland - #5 in TEUs nationally-50/50 split

9 other CA deepwater ports – mostly bulk, one private – who can name them all?

Competition: West Coast ports, Panama Canal expansion, Gulf & East Coast ports

Lesser ports and harbors – here fishy fishy

God is not making new deep water seaports in California.

It would take an act of God to get a new human made deep water seaport through the NEPA/CEQA process.

Ports are fragile economic entities that are generally owned by local jurisdictions under Tidelands Public Trust. They are California’s ultimate PPP enterprise.

Freight Railroads

Roughly 400 mile minimum threshold, very efficient, up to 8,000 foot long trains

Class I – privately owned Union Pacific (UP) Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF) Issues: capacity, passenger rail, grade crossings, safety,

community impacts, air quality, technology.

Shortline Railroads – no, not Monopoly

Class I Railroad Spending* on Infrastructure vs. State Highway Agency Spending* - 2006

RR vs SHS 2006 spending

*Capital outlays plus maintenance expenses.

Sources: FHWA Highway Statistics Table SF-12; AAR

1. Texas $7.572. Florida $5.693. California $4.19

Union Pacific $4.17BNSF $3.89

4. New York $3.595. Pennsylvania $3.306. Illinois $3.30

CSX $2.627. Michigan $2.618. North Carolina $2.489. Ohio $2.14

Norfolk Southern $2.1210. Georgia $1.88

$ in Billions

UP California Business Dimensions

Ag Products 17%

Autos 10%

Chemicals 7%

Energy 2%

Industrial Products15%

TEU Intermodal49%

TruckingTruckingShort DistanceLong Distance

TEU vs 53’ truck length - repacking

I-710 – demand exceeding capacity

Restrictions on where trucks can go

Small operators - Labor

Intermodal Facilities – pressure for mode shift to electric train/shuttle

Trucking Issues

More & heavier trucks

Deteriorating pavement

Fuel and emissions regulations

Cost of environmental compliance

Safety

Traffic Congestion

Intermodal FacilitiesSCIG – near dock: Scottish Curling-Ice Group, Submarine Cable Improvement Group, Southern California International Gateway – BNSF

Hobart – near downtown L.A.: “If it were a hub for ships instead of trains, Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp.'s Hobart rail yard would rank as the fourth-largest U.S. container port, behind Los Angeles, Long Beach and New York-New Jersey.”

San Pedro Bay Ports Clean Air Action Plan

Inland Empire – Jobs, Jobs, Jobs & impacts - future shift to High Desert?

Air FreightIn 2003 CA airports handled 22% of all U.S. air shipments with LAX #2 and SFO #4 in nation. LAX #13 in world - current

High Value & low weight – $116 billion in value in 2003 handled by CA airports.

Much cargo time sensitive.

Airports publicly owned – another PPP

Relatively easy mode to loose share, but often use same aircraft as passengers.

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Impacts

Toxic air pollution from diesel exhaust (particulate matter, NOx, SOx).Environmental Justice issues – disproportionate impacts to neighboring communities along freight corridors and nodes such as respiratory disease, noise and visual blight.Climate Change - Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions.Stress on an already over burdened transportation system.

Caltrans Freight Program

Goals & objectives

Goods Movement Action Plan (GMAP)

Trade Corridor Improvement Fund – (TCIF) Prop 1B

New initiatives: California Freight Mobility Plan, Rail Plan Update, Freight Model

Overarching Issues: community impacts, air quality, climate change, sea level rise, competition, physical constraint, $$$

Caltrans Freight Program Goals

Improve freight mobility: improved throughput, velocity, reliability, access; reduced congestion.

Improve California’s economy: economic development, jobs retention and creation, reduced transport costs.

Improve California’s environment: reduced air emissions, reduced community impacts, enhanced environmental justice, ballast.

Increase public safety and security: reduced roadway and rail incidents, increased security at ports-of-entry.

Caltrans Freight Program Goals

Goods Movement Action Plan (GMAP)

Groundbreaking approach involving Caltrans, Agency, Air Resources Board, Regions, Industry, others.

2005 Phase I: 180 projects/groups, $47 billion.

2007 Phase II: 24 projects/groups, $10 billion.

Expect to see a National Freight policy – and give a wink to the folks who developed GMAP.

Trade Corridor Improvement Fund (TCIF)

$2 billion from State Proposition 1B bond, $1 billion SHOPP added.

79 projects, with a total cost of $8 billion.

Includes highway capacity, grade separations, rail capacity projects, and port access projects (bridges, interchanges, rail yards).

Federal TIGER Program

Colton Crossing ($33.8 m),

Oakland/Stockton/West Sacramento “Green Trade Corridor” ($30m),

Otay Mesa POE/I-805-SR 905 ($20.2m),

Doyle Drive in SF($46m).

New Initiatives

California Freight Mobility Plan – an update of the GMAP and then some: CSULB & USC

Rail Plan Update - includes freight rail as well as the traditional passenger and pending HSR

Statewide Freight Model - supporting the CIB – UC Irvine

SCAG - Comprehensive Regional Goods Movement Plan and Implementation Strategy http://www.scag.ca.gov/goodsmove/regionalplan.htm

San Joaquin Valley - San Joaquin Valley Interregional Goods Movement Plan

Overarching Freight Issues

How can California • maximize economic benefits and • minimize environmental and

community impacts while • remaining competitive • in an intense global freight market?

Solutuions?

Vehicle technology improvements

Fuel improvements

System and mode operational improvements

Infrastructure Improvements

Partnerships

All of us working together.