# Presentation: 657649

## URBAN GOODS MOVEMENT ACTIVITIES AROUND ATLANTA

**URBAN GOODS MOVEMENT ACTIVITIES AROUND ATLANTA**

*The*

*Team*

## STUDY OF HOURLY TRUCK MOVEMENTS

**Marsha Anderson Bomar,**
** ****Street Smarts Project Manage**

**James Gordon****, GDOT Project  Manager**

**Office of Public Relations  **
**Local Governments**
**Trucking Industry**

## MANAGING TRUCK MOVEMENTSAROUND ATLANTA

- More than 70 implementable strategies
- Six categories
- Three prioritized tiers

## STRATEGY CATEGORIES

**STRATEGY CATEGORIES**

| Traffic Operations - ITS | Driver- Oriented | Capital Investment |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Planning | Advocacy and Legislative | Financial |

**Public**

**Private**

## GDOT STAFF PRIORITIES

- Increased Enforcement--#1 Overall
- Time of Day Messaging for Trucks
- On-Line Truck Route Maps
- Truck Information Signs Designed/Installed
- Freight Movement-Specific ITS Application
- Continuous Truck Data Collection Program
- Develop “Smart Freight” Corridors
- Investigation of Truck Havens

## STRATEGIES BEING DEVELOPED

- GDOT Task Orders:
- Truck Havens Characteristics Research
- NaviGAtor Truck-related Information Section on Website – Preliminary Definition Developed
- Public Education Program (with Vicki Gavalas)
- ARC Regional Freight Task Force
- Freight Planning portion of Mobility 2030
- RFP to be released in Nov/Dec for major freight analysis
- Identification of specific truck-friendly projects for TIP
- Improvement of I-20/285 Interchanges

##  OTHER ACTIVITIES

- GDOT and Georgia Motor Truck Association developing appropriate messages for CMS for night time trucker information
- GDOT Update of Statewide Transportation Plan – multimodal focus
- ARC acquisition of Reebie Freight database and development of user tools

## FREIGHT ADVISORY TASK FORCE

- Creating a long term forum for discussion of problems and opportunities
- Identification of priority freight corridors
- Identification of significant freight bottlenecks

## Early Conversation

- Planning

- Driver-Oriented

- Operational

**Early Conversation**

- ARC Task Force includes: railroad, trucking industry and the ports.
- Support for  mobility improvements, the concept of a Public Private Initiative for a truck only corridor was discussed.
- Area to be connected: from Austell to the airport area via a southwest crescent.

## LONG RANGE PLAN AND TIP

- Mobility 2030 Long Range Plan and 2005-2010 TIP include:
- Cross regional corridor improvements
- Smart corridor-system optimization
- Investment focus on 20 most congested corridors
- ITS Deployment

## TRAFFIC OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT

- Intersection improvements
- Regional ITS infrastructure
- TIME Task Force
- Regional Traffic Ops Task Force

- Freeway Ramp metering
- Interchange upgrades for trucks
- Bridge replacements
- Truck Climbing Lanes

## SPECIAL STUDIES

- Truck Only Lanes (Free and TOT)
- Regional Freight and Goods Movement Study
- Multi-modal Corridor Studies
- Continuation of GDOT Truck Study implementation

## URBAN GOODS MOVEMENT

- Limited activities addressing UGM
- ARC study will include some elements

## THANK YOU!

- For more information:
- Phone:  770/813-0882
- E-mail:  marsha@streetsmarts.us

- Select documents available on website @ www.streetsmarts.us