panel #6: trends in urban freight development and delivery suzann rhodes, wilbur smith associates

Panel #6: Trends in Urban Freight Development and Delivery

Suzann Rhodes, Wilbur Smith Associates

NCFRP 15: Urban Goods Movements

Purpose: Identify ways to accommodate and expedite goods movement while minimize envion’t and community consequences

• produce a single source document• geared to local officials

Product: Guidebook for local decision makers

Status: Draft to be vetted March 2011

Issues / Findings

• Land use and zoning is controlled by local governments

• Freight not priority of local planning offices

• MPOs, DOTs, Local officials just beginning to understand link – freight and economy

1st – educate/inform

• How freight moves• Where freight moves• Why freight moves• Who moves freight• Impacts

1st educate/inform link economy and QOL

• Grocery estimate product on shelves– Produce, frozen goods, meat, fish = 1-3 days; – Eggs, dairy = 2 days– Dry goods = up to 7 days

• To make that work, stores receive deliveries from warehouses every single day

Next: Relationships codes to freight efficiency

Relationship of Codes, Ordinances and Regulations to Freight Efficiency Freight Efficiency Impact

Code, ordinance or regulation

Time in transit Distance

Quality of infrastructure Access

Parking x x x x

Time of day delivery x x

Truck size and weight x x

Truck routing x x x

Building codes, design x x

Infrastructure design x x x x

Land use patterns x x x

Policies Time in transit

Distance Quality of

infrastructure Access

Enforcement x x Consideration of freight in infrastructure project selection and construction

x x x x

Next – how to

• Case studies• Examples and ideas

Source: Wilbur Smith Associates, 2010

WHAT ARE THE THREE MOST IMPORTANT ITEMS

• Educate local officials – impacts on freight and freight’s impact on their

economy

• Educate private sector and transportation professionals– How to and who to engage

• Need to offer realistic improvements

panel #6: trends in urban freight development and delivery suzann rhodes, wilbur smith associates

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