# Presentation: 446281

## Freight Impacts on Ohio’s Transportation System

- presentation by
- Suzann Gad, AICP
- Administrator
- Office of Urban & Corridor Planning

- Ohio Department of Transportation

## Why Freight Research & Planning

- Obvious growth in numbers
- Correlation between truck ADT and maintenance needs
- Importance to Ohio’s economic health

- Ohio Department of Transportation

## ODOT MISSION STATEMENT:

To provide a world-class transportation system that links Ohio to a global economy while preserving the state’s unique character and enhancing its quality of life. 

*To provide a world-class transportation system that links Ohio to a global economy while preserving the state’s unique character and enhancing its quality of life. *

- Ohio Department of Transportation

## Good planning begins with research based on accurate  data and fact based analysis

- Data needed:
- Clear picture of freight movement on Ohio’s transportation system
- Routes
- Modes
- Commodities
- Trends and future projections

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## Analysis

- Assess impact on infrastructure
- Pavements
- Bridges
- Congestion
- Air quality
- Location issues
- Growth (location & volume)
- Modal share, shift, shuffle

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## SPR Funded Freight Research $353,000 & 1 year

-   Cambridge Systematics
-   Reebie Associates

- Ohio Department of Transportation

## Research Overview:

- Data:
- Ohio 1998 - from *TRANSEARCH* data base (Long haul focus)
- Truck, Air, Rail, Water
- Inbound outbound, intra, through Ohio
- County level w/in & 50 mile outside boarder
- National at regional analysis zone level
- 4 digit SIC

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## Research Overview:

- Projections (2010 & 2020)
- Licensure for 16 MPOs
- Training
- Profile
- Case Studies
- Integration w/ statewide model
- Policy implications
- Recommendation

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## What we are getting & What we have discovered

- 1. Freight analysis zones
- 2. National flows/all commodities truck
- 3.  US map with rail flows
- 4. National growth
- 5.  Regional growth

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## TRANSEARCH Freight Analysis Zones

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## Slide 11

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**Notes:**
Truck travel pretty ubiquitous on network; with obviously heavier densities in eastern seaboard corridors

## Rail Freight Flows, 1998All commodities; rail freight density in tons

- Rail Freight Flows, 1998All commodities; rail freight density in tons

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## Truck Freight Growth, 1998-2020Regional growth rates and highway links with highest growth rates; freight density in tons

- Truck Freight Growth, 1998-2020Regional growth rates and highway links with highest growth rates; freight density in tons

**West Region 100%**

**South Region 89%**

**Northeast Region 79%**

**Central Region 89%**

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## Growth by Region & Mode: MidwestUS Inter & Intra-Regional Tonnage (Millions)

- 89%

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## Ohio Facts

- Ohio is 35th in geographic size in US
- Ohio’s is the 17 largest economy in the World
- Ohio is within 600 miles of :
- 70 % of N.American Manufacturing
- 60 % of all US households

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## ODOT Facts

- Ohio has 10 largest highway network in US
- Ohio is 2nd in number of bridges in US
- Ohio has 5th highest traffic volume in US

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## Ohio Freight Facts

- 5.5 % of all US highway freight tons touches Ohio’s transportation system
- Ohio is 4th in the nation for inbound & outbound freight

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## Domestic Truck Flows To/From Ohio

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## Domestic Rail Activity To/From Ohio

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## Ohio Freight Facts

- Truck Freight just passing through Ohio =
- 32% of total freight tonnage
- 44% of total ton miles
- All modes of freight passing through Ohio =
- 35% of total freight tonnage
- 46% of total ton miles

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## For every finding, another question

- What routes is freight taking?
- What are its impact on pavements & bridges?
- What modes are being used?
- Where is there capacity?
- What commodities are traveling in/through?
- What commodities are growing?
- What routes will be effected?

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## Findings, Analysis, Issues, Impacts on Policies &Decision Making

- A total of 950 million tons of freight travels to, from, or through Ohio
- Water carries 12% (118 million tons)
- Trucks carry 60% (567 million tons)
- Rail carries 28% (263 million tons)

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## Rail Freight

- Rail through traffic = 59% of the ton miles on Ohio Tracks
- 39% of the ton miles on Ohio tracks are to or from Ohio (intra-state distances are too short for rail economics)
- 4% of rail ton miles are w/in Ohio

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## Slide 24

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## Ohio Top Commodities/all modes

- 		(reported in short tons = 2,000 lbs)
- Coal - 14%   (132,797,767 )
- Food - 10.1%   (96,036,220)
- Chemicals - 9.9%   (94,527,499)
- Metals – 9.2%   (87,342,217)
- Warehousing – 8.7%   (82,420,938)
- Clay, Concrete, Glass – 7.5%   (70,984,985)

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## Ohio Top Commodities/truck

- 	(all reported in short tons = 2,000 lbs)
- Warehousing – 14.5% (82,420,938) (100% by truck)
- Food - 13.5% (76,781,243) (80% by truck)
- Chemicals – 11.8% (66,666,943) (70% by truck)
- Clay, Concrete, Glass – 11.3% (64,114,794) (90% by truck)
- Metals – 11% (62,115,438)  (71% by truck)

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## Slide 27

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## Roadway Facts

- Truck freight is traveling primarily:
-  East / West  or West / East (I-80, I-70)
- NE /SW or SW/NE (I-71)
- 96 % of Ohio’s truck freight passes through the top 20 “gateways
- Freight w/in Ohio is primarily traveling I-71

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## Slide 29

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## Slide 30

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## Slide 31

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## Top 20 Gateways by Tonnage

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## Top 20 Roadway Segments

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## More questions & uses 

- Next TEA –
- Fair share issues
- Freight initiatives
- Update of **ACCESS OHIO**
- ORDC & Army Corps
- Shuffling & shifting commodities
- Inter-modal connection issues & improvements
- Short line potential
- TRAC & ODOD – growth issues
- Roadway & Bridge improvements/investments

- Ohio Department of Transportation

## Proposed Schedule

**Preliminary Case Study Findings**

**Presentation**

**Deliverable**

**Month**

**	****1****	****2****	****3****	****4****	****5****	****6****	****7****	****8****	****9****	****10****	****11****	****12**

**Task**

**1.****	****Acquisition of Base Freight Data**
**	****Workshop on Program Data**
**2.****	****Develop Base Year Truck Table**
**3.****	****Develop Forecast Truck Volumes**
**	****Future Truck Volume Presentation**
**4.****	****Develop Freight Policies****Analysis Techniques**
**5.****	****Application of the****Analysis Techniques**
**	****Subtask 5.1:  HERS Case Study**
**	****Subtask 5.2:  I-75 Case Study**
**	****Subtask 5.3:  Northern Ohio Corridor Case Study**
**	****Subtask 5.4:  MORPC Case Study**
**	****Case Studies Presentation**
**6.****	****Final Documentation**

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## Insights & impacts on policy and decision making / where ODOT discussion is headed:

- Freight carriers operate from a global market perspective
- Infrastructure improvement decisions are often made from a local (cost/benefit) perspective

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## Insights, impacts on policy and decision making / where ODOT discussion is headed :

- Freight is a private sector activity
- Infrastructure, its maintenance & improvements are a public sector activity

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## Questions ?

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