# Presentation: 029484

## New Orleans Intra-City 

**New Orleans Intra-City **
**Truck Freight Study**

- Talking Freight Seminar
- April 19th 2005

**Karen Parsons**
**New Orleans Regional Planning Commission**
**Eulois Cleckley**
**Wilbur Smith Associates**

## Presentation Outline

- Background
- Benefits
- Challenges
- Study Methodology
- Data collection process
- Outcomes
- Conclusion

**New Orleans Intra-City Truck Freight Study 2005**

## Trucking Industry Overview New Orleans 5-Parish Area

- Over 9 million tons were moved by truck from New Orleans
- 17% of  Average Annual Daily Truck Traffic (AADTT)  and 16% of total shipments were intra-state
- 75 companies and 12 brokers within Orleans parish
- 66% of truck  traffic is caused by light duty and delivery trucks within Orleans parish
- 9% of all large trucks carry hazardous materials
- 58 million in truck registration fees, fine and penalties--- Taxes paid by trucking sector (Fuel, violations)
- Intermodal ports, Elmwood, Labarre, NORBP and Earhart /Tulane Business parks generate majority of truck moves
- Anecdotal sense of where trucks are going and the effect on a city area.

*Orleans, Jefferson, Plaquemines, St. Bernard and St. Tammany*

**New Orleans Intra-City Truck Freight Study 2005**

## Vision and Goals

**Vision**
- To provide a picture of the trucking freight movements within the New Orleans metropolitan area and inform our understanding of the flow of freight  within the 5-parish New Orleans Region.

**Goals**
-  To determine the freight flows by truck through the New Orleans 5-parish area
-  To illustrate the inbound and outbound truck flows from the Business Parks and Industrial Districts
-  To illustrate inbound and outbound truck moves to Intermodal yards (port moves and rail drays)

**New Orleans Intra-City Truck Freight Study 2005**

## Strategy

***Goal***
- To determine the freight flows by truck through the New Orleans 5-parish area
- 	***Objectives******	****** ***
- Focus on the major truck trip generators in the region.
- Identify the businesses in the Business Parks and Industrial Districts (Elmwood, Labarre, New Orleans Regional Business and Industrial Park, Earhart/Tulane, Harvey Canal Industrial Park and other identifiable business/industry clusters).
***Goal***
- To illustrate the inbound and outbound truck flows from the Business Parks and
- Industrial Districts
- 	***Objectives***
- Locate and map the Business Parks, Industrial Districts and Freight Villages
- Quantify the delivery patterns through the use of a comprehensive online survey.
- Map flow of  freight to and from locations by zip code clusters.

**New Orleans Intra-City Truck Freight Study 2005**

## Strategy (Cont’d)

***Goal***
-  To illustrate inbound and outbound truck moves to Intermodal yards(port moves and rail drays)
- 	***Objectives***
- Map truck freight flows for the Intermodal yards (Port of New Orleans, CSX, UP, NS, BNSF, CN and KCS).
- Quantify drayage trips from terminal to terminal. Map flow of  freight to and  from terminals by zip code clusters.

**New Orleans Intra-City Truck Freight Study 2005**

## Previous Data Collection

- Current traffic demand modeling:
- Limited traffic counts around region
- Truck traffic as percentage of overall traffic
- Supplemental traffic data through travel diaries
- 2000 survey of 20 trucking firms (approx. 100 questionnaires) self identified worst problems
- Verify/Update Truck Route Maps using local ordinances and designated state routes

**New Orleans Intra-City Truck Freight Study 2005**

## New Data Collection Approach Developed

- Establish regional study boundaries
- Define ‘Significant Freight Generators’
- Contact selected businesses
- Create the online survey

**New Orleans Intra-City Truck Freight Study 2005**

## Benefits

-  More robust understanding of trucking movements related to geography
- Developed new analysis tool useful for other Metropolitan Planning Organizations
- Regional rather than statewide
- Assist in categorizing truck moves for congestion management planning

**New Orleans Intra-City Truck Freight Study 2005**

## Benefits

- Understand how truck flows effect business operations (and visa versa)
- Locate freight generators and quantify activities
- Inform land use policy
- Inform transportation planning
- Establish knowledgeable advisory committees: Trucking Subcommittee and Freight Advisory Group
- Inform project selection for TIP and MTP

**New Orleans Intra-City Truck Freight Study 2005**

## Challenges

***Challenges***

## Challenges

**Identifying the businesses**
- Purchase of SIC code business data base (other uses too)
- Used interested, unpaid graduate students to call local businesses (Univ. of New Orleans – MURP students)
- Introduce project and gather accurate contact information
**Ensuring Participation**
- Post Card snail mail reminders to fill out survey on-line
- On-line survey reminders weekly
- Offer of free regional truck map
- Made presentations to local business park associations
- Offer of copy of New Orleans Trucking Study
-     report when completed

**New Orleans Intra-City Truck Freight Study 2005**

## Challenges

- Locating and researching an on-line survey tool
- Survey Monkey - $19 per month
- Designing good survey – understandable/reasonable length
- Compiling and assembling contact information of local business making or receiving trucked deliveries
- Establishing a relationship with truck/motor carriers
- Establishing Cluster Zip Code Zones
-  Establish Zone to Zone matrix –drivers self identify most-used truck routes (personal knowledge/time consuming)
- Determining types of trucks making deliveries
- Compilation and analysis of survey data and other info

**New Orleans Intra-City Truck Freight Study 2005**

## The Survey

-  Business type (determine the number of warehouses, distribution centers and businesses in each business park)
-  Number of deliveries to warehouses, distribution centers and general business
-  Day of the week deliveries occur
-  Time of the day that deliveries are made (typical delivery pattern)
-  Carrier size (determination between 5-axle trucks and delivery trucks)
-  Number of outbound loads (shipments) depending on business type
-  Destinations of loads to determine the truck routes used in the parish area

**New Orleans Intra-City Truck Freight Study 2005**

## Survey Tool

## Intra-City Freight Flow StudyZip Code Zone Map

**Intra-City Freight Flow Study***Zip Code Zone Map*

## SIC Code Breakdown

**New Orleans Intra-City Truck Freight Study 2005**

## Business Per Zone

**New Orleans Intra-City Truck Freight Study 2005**

## Results

- Freight Flow Trends
*Results*

## Vehicle Type

*Results*

## Intracity Truck Freight Study

*Results*

## Data from motor carriers for Flow Matrix
Weighted Flow Maps
State crash data received yet problematic
Crash analysis using CrimeStat Software
Trucking Subcommittee – formed but not regrouped
Formulation of a Freight Advisory Group

- Weighted Flow Maps
- State crash data received yet problematic
- Crash analysis using CrimeStat Software
- Trucking Subcommittee – formed but not regrouped
- Formulation of a Freight Advisory Group

**Next Steps *****Interrupted by Hurricane Katrina***

**New Orleans Intra-City Truck Freight Study 2005**

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