# Presentation: 720814

## Regional Freight Planningin Baltimore

**Jocelyn Jones**
**Baltimore Metropolitan Council**
**410/732-0500, x1049**
**jjones@baltometro.org**
**March 21, 2001**

## Overview

- About Baltimore
- Freight Movement Task Force
- Useful Resources

## About Baltimore

**Five counties & Baltimore City**
**Major interstates:  I-70, I-95, I-83**
**Port of Baltimore (POB)**
**BWI Airport**
**Railroads:  CSX, NS, shortlines**

## Freight Movement Task Force

**Established in 1994**
**Incorporates freight issues into the MPO planning process**
**Four meetings per year**
**Private sector chair & vice-chair**

## Task Force Fact Sheet 

## Recent  Meeting Topics

**Airport:  air cargo & passenger growth, Fed Ex tour**
**Port:  dredging, terminal operations**
**Rail:  Conrail merger, state rail plan**
**Consultant perspective on international & regional issues**
**Woodrow Wilson Bridge status**

## Task Force Activities

**Operational Focus**
**Truck Parking Subcommittee**
**Freight Trends**
**Intermodal Connectors**

## Truck Parking Subcommittee

**Safety issue:  Trucks park along highway shoulders and vehicles occasionally run into the back of them.**
**Is there a need for more truck parking spaces along I-95?**
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## Major participants:  state police, private truck stop operators (TSOs), two truck associations, MD DOT & modal administrations

Key point:  subcommittee chair had relationships with chair of TSO council and state police

**Key point:  subcommittee chair had relationships with chair of TSO council and state police**

**Truck Parking Subcommittee (cont’d)**

## Truck Parking Subcommittee (cont’d)

**Information collected:  **
**	**_**Interviews**_** with TSOs revealed that  spaces are available ****	**
**	**_**TSOs**_** identified spaces available at various times of day **
**	**_**State police**_** identified where trucks park on shoulders**
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## Truck Parking Subcommittee (cont’d)

**Information collected (cont’d):  **
**	****Many big **_**signs**_** advertise rest areas, few little signs advertise TSOs**
**	****State’s **_**truckers map**_** was outdated, difficult to get, & cost $1**
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## Truck Parking Subcommittee (cont’d)

**Recommendations:**
**	**_**New signs**_** related to truck stops**
**	**_**Revise truckers map**_**, improve distribution, & offer for free**
**	**_**Review enforcement practices**_**, if no change takes place  **

## Freight Trends 

## Intermodal Connectors

**March Workshop to identify potential improvements on connectors and other local roads**
**Invitees: truck, rail, port, air cargo, econ. dev.,  & public works reps; intermodal terminal mgrs; logistics mgrs; TSOs **

## Intermodal Connectors

**Participants are asked to identify improvements in advance of workshop, develop prioritization criteria, encouraged to participate in site visits**
**Improvements on intermodal connectors are reviewed by consultant, local public works to review others**

## Useful Resources

**Connect with peers:  mailing lists, attend meetings**
**Publications:  Traffic World, modal newsletters/magazines**
**Other Groups:  Council of Logistics Management, Traffic Club**
**Site Visits**
**Training:  Building the Partnership**