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

1 st – educate/inform How freight moves Where freight moves Why freight moves Who moves freight Impacts

1 st 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

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