# Presentation: 817227

## Project Overview

**Project Overview**
**I – 70**
**Dedicated Truck Lanes**** **
**Update: 3/19/2008**
**For FHWA Talking Freight Webinar**
**Keith J. Bucklew**
**Indiana Dept. of Transportation**

##  I-70 Dedicated Truck Lanes

**This Presentation **
- Corridors of the Future Program
- Project Overview
- Corridor Conditions
- Congestion, safety, economic growth
- Separation as a Solution
- Design and Technology - Concepts
- Four-State Coalition
- Next Steps – The Way Forward

## 1.  Corridors of the Future Program (CFP)

- CFP is an initiative under USDOT’s
-  “National Strategy to Reduce Congestion”
- Explore innovative financing
- Improve flow of goods
- Enhance quality of life
- I-70 one of 6 corridors selected and funded
- $5 million discretionary grant from FHWA
- $2 million to Missouri DOT (support environmental work)
- $3 million for corridor feasibility study

## 1.  Corridors of the Future Program (cont.)

- Selection means USDOT / FHWA will help:
- Facilitate and accelerate development of the corridor
- Through expedited review and approvals
- By breaking through institutional and regulatory obstacles
- By promoting efficient environmental review
- Assist in identifying alternative private sector financing approaches and discretionary funding
- Provide access to DOT experts
- http://www.fightgridlocknow.gov/corridors.htm#overview

## 2. CFP Project Overview

- I-70 through MO, IL, IN, OH
- Approx. 800 miles
- Dedicated Truck-Only-Lanes (TOLs)
- Reduce congestion
- Enhance mobility & reliability
- Improve safety for trucks and passenger vehicles
- Four state coalition
- INDOT serves as lead state

## Goal: An Efficient, Reliable and Sustainable World Class Transportation System

- Primary Objectives:
- Reduce Congestion
- Improve Quality of Life
- Incorporate existing and future ITS
- Enhance Mobility & Improve Reliability
- Strengthen and Sustain national and global supply chains.
- Incorporate information management solutions
- Improve Safety
- Minimize crashes
- Reduce fatalities and injuries

## Goal: An Efficient, Reliable and Sustainable World Class Transportation System

- Secondary Objectives:
- Enhance Economic Development
- Improve Quality of Life
- Motor carrier productivity
- Reduce impacts to environment, communities and public health
- Improve Security
- Freight/Cargo security
- National Security: Economics and Military
- Facilitate Multimodal Integration – all modes
- Improve access and interchangeability
- Provide seamless connectivity

## I-70 Project Area

## I-70 Corridor project area connects to: 

- 9 North/South Interstates:
- I-29 and I-35 in the Kansas City, Missouri area
- I-55 in the St. Louis, Missouri area
- I-57 in south central Illinois
- I-65 and I-69 in the Indianapolis, Indiana area
- I-75 north of Dayton, Ohio area
- I-71 in the Columbus, Ohio area
- I-77 near Cambridge, Ohio
- 2 East/West Interstate Connections:
- I-44 and I-64 in the St. Louis, Missouri area
- I-74 in Indianapolis

## I-70 Corridor project area connects to: 

- 17 passenger and air cargo airports
- All 7 class 1 U.S. Railroads (cross or parallel I-70)
- Water ports on the Missouri, Mississippi, and Ohio Rivers

## 3.  Corridor Conditions - Truck Flows 2035

- Source:FHWA FAF 2

## 3.  Corridor Conditions - 2030 Urban Area Congestion

## 3. Corridor Conditions - Safety

- In 2004 – the I-70 project area had:
-  More than 10,000 crashes
- 18 % were truck involved crashes
- 36% of the truck involved crashes involved fatalities mainly to passenger car drivers and occupants
- 2.3 million vehicle hours of incident-induced delay

## 3.  Corridor Conditions - 2030 Anticipated Congestion and Employment Growth

## 4.  Separation as a Solution

- Separating trucks from passenger cars
- Improves safety
- Ex. Conflicts and fatalities will be reduced
- Reduces congestion
- Ex. vehicles accelerate and decelerate at different speeds

## 5.  Design and Technology - Concepts

## Design and Technology – ConceptsTechnology Integration 

- ITS
- Advanced Traffic Management Systems
- Traveler Information
- Emergency Management
- Weigh-in-Motion / Virtual Weigh-in-Motion
- Vehicle Infrastructure Integration (VII)
- Electronic Tolling / Congestion Pricing
- Roadside Parking
- Virtual/wireless vehicle & operator inspections

## Urban Typical Section

*Source: Wilbur Smith concept*

## Rural Typical Section

## Interchange Concepts

## 6.  MO, IL, IN, OH-State DOT Coalition

- DOTs were partners in submission of CFP Phase 2 Application
- Now need to:
- Create / formalize I-70 Corridor Coalition
- Develop Corridor of the Future Program Development Agreement (CFPDA) with all states and FHWA  (similar to a MOU)
- Agree to next steps and schedule

## 7.  Next Steps

- Meeting with all states and FHWA
- Establish Corridor Coalition
- Identify Key Players:
- “Blue Ribbon Panel” or “Steering Committee”
- DOT Executives, Elected officials and MPO leaders along corridor, major businesses, trucking industry, transportation leaders, and other stakeholders
- Staffing – “Technical Advisory Committee”
- Representatives from DOTs, MPOs, Major cities
- Consulting help needed
- Determine need / role (management, coordination, technical)

## 7.  Next Steps (continued)

- Agree on goals and needed actions
- Agree and sign CFPDA
- Agree on use of funding
- Feasibility study – what it includes
- Purpose and need document
- Initial environmental analysis
- Conceptual design – cost estimates
- Technology integration
- Financing options
- Legislative changes needed
- Public information and involvement
- Coordination with MODOT project

## Political Issues

- Financing & Funding Source(s)
- Public-private Partnership?
- Public Toll Road?
- Free access roadway?
- Routing _*through*_* or *_*bypass*_ metro areas?
- Standardization: Size & Weight limits for LPVs
- Limited CMV access on/off facility
- No commodity and/or industry restrictions
- Full commercial use.
- Significant land acquisition for r/w expansion

## Internal Issues

- Maintaining cohesive multi-state coalition
- Consistent user assessment plan:
- IF tolled, then single fee for use
- Standardized:
- Weights & Lengths for LPVs
- CMV speed limits
- Truck parking:
- Staging & breakdown facilities
- Public – private – shared responsibility?
- CMV parking facilities

## Freight Mobility webpage:

**Freight Mobility webpage:**
**http://freightmobility.in.gov**
**Keith J. Bucklew**
**Director – Freight Mobility**
- _[Kbucklew@indot.in.gov](mailto:Kbucklew@indot.in.gov)_
**317.233.2376**