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Freight Planning & Partners AP APA 2 A 2017 NA NATI TIONAL P PLAN ANNING C CONFERENCE #9105626 Vic ictoria F Farr, AIC ICP Port Authority of New York & New Jersey Step ephanie M e Molden en Southeastern Connecticut Council of Governments Din iniece P Peters, E EIT IT, A A.M.ASCE New York City Department of Transportation

Outline • Introduction to freight planning (20 min.) • Regional freight planning (15 min.) • State freight planning (15 min.) • Local freight planning (15 min.) • Wrap-up and Q&A (10 min.) 2

Objectives • What are the steps of a freight planning process? • Why are freight considerations important in everyday planning? • Who are the public and private stakeholders that should be involved? • How to educate communities about freight? • How to incorporate freight provisions into state, regional, and local plans/zoning regulations? 3

Freight Planning & Partners: Introduction AP APA 2 A 2017 NA NATI TIONAL P PLAN ANNING C CONFERENCE #9105626 Vic ictoria F Farr, AIC ICP Port Authority of New York & New Jersey Step ephanie M e Molden en Southeastern Connecticut Council of Governments

What is freight? freight /frāt/ noun 1. goods transported by truck, train, ship, or aircraft 5

How does freight move? • The U.S. freight transportation system moves 55 million tons of goods, worth more than $49 billion, each day • Freight is moved by private sector entities on infrastructure built, owned, and operated by a mix of: • Federal, State, and local government agencies (e.g., roads) • Public-private authorities (e.g., airports and marine ports) • Private sector entities (e.g., railroad) • Freight movements are often international and intermodal • E.g. The banana you ate this morning likely came from Ecuador, nearly 3,000 miles away, and traveled by ship and truck to get here. Source: USDOT Beyond Traffic National Freight Strategy (2017). 6

How does freight move? (cont.) Pipeline, Other, 1.7% 7.7% Multiple, 7.7% Air, 0.1% Water, 4.0% Rail, 9.3% Truck, 69.6% Source: USDOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics Freight Facts and Figures (2015). 7

Why is freight important? • The U.S. economy is expected to double in size between 2015-2045 • The U.S. population is projected to increase by 70 million people between 2015-2045 • More people will require more food, more clothes, more phones, more construction materials for more housing, more freight! • Freight movements across all modes is expected to grow 40 percent by 2045 Source: USDOT Beyond Traffic National Freight Strategy (2017). 8

How is freight planning different? Passenger Planning Freight Planning Generally single jurisdiction, single Multiple jurisdictions, interagency agency coordination Trip generation and travel behaviors Freight movements are difficult to are well understood predict based on market forces Publicly available data Proprietary data Transport of me is personal: easy to Transport of my stuff is invisible: engage public and decision makers difficult to engage public and decision makers Stakeholders are easily identified Freight stakeholders are more difficult to identify and engage Passengers vote Freight does not vote Source:FHWA-NHI-139006. 9

What are federal freight planning requirements? • Fixing America’s Surface Transportation (FAST) Act, passed in December 2015, was the first surface transportation legislation to: • Establish freight planning requirements • Dedicate funding for freight planning and projects • States must develop a comprehensive and multimodal State Freight Plan that outlines immediate and long-range plans for freight related transportation investments • States must submit State Freight Plans by December 2017 to program federal freight formula funds • Plans must be updated at least every five years 10

What are federal freight planning requirements? (cont.) 1. System trends, needs, and issues 2. Policies, strategies, and performance measures 3. List of multimodal critical urban/rural freight facilities and corridors 4. Consistency with national multimodal freight policy goals 5. Consideration of innovative technologies and operational strategies 6. Strategies to reduce damage that heavy vehicles do to key roadways 7. Inventory of facilities with freight mobility issues, such as bottlenecks 8. Consideration of significant congestion and mitigation 9. Fiscally constrained freight investment plan and list of priority projects 10. Consultation with the State Freight Advisory Committee, if applicable 11

What federal funding is available for freight planning? • FAST Act provides $6.3 billion in formula funds to State DOTs over five years • This is not new funding, but rather a reallocation of funds from other transportation programs • FAST Act established FASTLANE, a discretionary grant program of $4.5 billion over five years • This is a new grant program, open to public transportation agencies, and public/private partnerships • The 2016 round received 212 applications totaling $9.8 billion in requests and awarded $757 million to 18 projects 12

What are State Freight Advisory Committees? • FAST Act recommends States to establish Freight Advisory Committees to: • Advise on freight-related priorities, issues, projects, and funding needs • Serve as forum for discussion of transportation decisions affecting freight mobility • Communicate and coordinate regional priorities • Promote sharing of information between public and private partners • Participate in development of State Freight Plan • May be permanent and on-going, or convene only to inform freight plan development 13

Who belongs on State Freight Advisory Committees? • May comprise representative cross-section of public and private sector freight stakeholders: • Marine ports • Airports • Freight railroads • Shippers, carriers, and freight forwarders • Freight associations • Third-party logistics providers • Freight industry workforce • State DOT, MPO, and local government 14

Freight Planning & Partners: Regional Freight Planning AP APA 2 A 2017 NA NATI TIONAL P PLAN ANNING C CONFERENCE #9105626 Vic ictoria F Farr, AIC ICP Port Authority of New York & New Jersey

G-MAP A COMPREHENSIVE GOODS MOVEMENT ACTION PROGRAM FOR THE NEW YORK-NEW JERSEY METROPOLITAN REGION APA 2017 National Planning Conference #9105626 May 9, 2017 A Joint Initia tive of: T he Po rt Autho rity o f Ne w Yo rk a nd Ne w Je rse y T he Ne w Je rse y De pa rtme nt o f T ra nspo rta tio n T he Ne w Yo rk Sta te De pa rtme nt o f T ra nspo rta tio n

T he Re g io n 17

T he Sta te o f F re ig ht in the Re g io n 18

I mpro ving F re ig ht in the Re g io n: G-MAP Goods Movement Action Program (G-MAP)  A multi-jurisdictional, multi-modal regional platform Partnership with PANYNJ, NJDOT, NYSDOT, local governments, and private  industry Engages regional agencies   Builds off existing plans, projects, and data from the partner agencies and MPOs  Establishes goals and strategies to improve the region’s goods movement system  Identifies 200+ discrete actions that advance these goals and strategies 19

Pla nning Pro c e ss Phase I: Government Current Advisory Conditions Committee Phase II: Stakeholder Goals & Outreach Strategies Industry Phase III: Focus Action Plan Groups 20

F ro m Pla nning to I mple me nta tio n  Strategic packaging Prioritizes community and  environmental benefits Improves all dimensions of how  goods move across the region Management & Policy packages  Modal & Geographic packages   Early actions Establish accountability and oversight  Lay the groundwork for implementation  Build momentum and demonstrate successes to rally stakeholder support  Use currently available resources  21

E a rly Ac tio ns  Designate 53-foot trailer through-route to connect JFK Airport to local and national network  Increase regional commercial vehicle compliance through education and enforcement  Improve regional truck navigation and underlying route restriction data  Harmonize regional truck regulations  Streamline permitting for oversize/overweight vehicles  Expand off-peak delivery regionally and throughout the supply chain  Implement the GATES action package to improve port access  Establish air cargo drop-off & consolidation center at SWF Airport  Achieve 286k capacity to be consistent with national rail standards  Specialize in P3s and innovative financing for freight applications 22

E a rly Ac tio n: 53-fo o t T ra ile r T hro ug h-Ro ute  Designate 53-foot trailer through-route to connect JFK Airport to local and national network  Respond to air cargo industry’s needs and increase efficiency of region’s air cargo network  Be responsive to elected officials’ and community boards’ concerns up to 20% 23 savings

Adva nc ing G-MAP  Prioritize actionable strategies to improve regional goods movement  Align with new federal policy and funding opportunities  Engage stakeholders Summary Brochure  Freight Portfolio  Website   Implement operational and regulatory reforms  Leverage each agency’s limited resources  Institutionalize regional coordination to address shared challenges 24