Recent Innovations Regional Freight PlanningPresentation to IDOT Fall Planning

ConferenceOctober 15, 2015

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Core Freight Planning PrinciplesFreight System Planning Recommendations Project

Source: Cambridge Systematics (2009)

Freight System Complexity

• Truck routes• Physical limitations in

roads (e.g., vertical clearances)

• OS/OW Permitting• Delivery Windows:

Overnight Deliveries Are Sometimes Not Encouraged

• Parking• Trucker Hours-of-Service

Regulation

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I-55 Congestion Scan: Average

Speeds by Time of Day by Milepost

Congestion

Image: CMAP

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Addressing Congestion Is Not Simple

May, 2011

Image: CMAP

Understanding Conditions: Regional Datasets

Data sharing hub launched FY 2015https://datahub.cmap.illinois.gov/

Geography Socioeconomic data and forecasts Environmental Data Transportation Data

Regional Datasets: Transportation Data Details

Travel Tracker Household Travel Inventory Regional ITS Architecture Regional Data Archive Signal Database Sensor Data/Expressway Atlas Vehicle Probe Data Intermodal Rail Facilities Enhanced Rail and Truck Inventories

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Highway Data: Sensing, Monitoring, and Archiving

Highway Speed/Volume Sensors: Inductive Loops - Occupancy Cameras/Video

Vehicle Probe Data: Public Fleets Commercial Vehicles/Fleet Monitoring Bluetooth Navigation Devices and Smart Phones

Weather: Important New Sensor Data

Regional Expressway Atlas

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Link Performance Analysis – Congestion Scan

Image: CMAP

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Probe Datasets: National Performance Measurement Research Dataset

5-minute archive, truck, passenger, and combined

NHS, including intermodal connectors Will support performance measure

requirements in MAP-21 Related data is available for purchase

from HERE resellers (MS2) and HERE’S competitors (TomTom, INRIX)

Access permitted only by State DOTs and MPOs and their contractors

NPMRDS Data: How Data Is Collected

NPMRDS Basics: How Data is Collected

NPMRDS Basics: How Data Is Collected

Estimated Freight Trains per Day,

2011

Rail industry continues to

consolidate lines, focusing on

modernization and productivity.

Sample of Rail Data

Estimated Passenger Trains

per Day, 2011, excluding

Deadheads.

Passenger and freight system

conflicts continue.

Sample ofRail Data

How to Get What You Want: CMAP Regional Models

Traditional 4-Step Travel Demand Models Trip Generation Trip Distribution Mode share Trip Assignment Model Features

CMAP Regional Models:Advanced Models

Advanced Models – Modular Development Activity-based travel Dynamic Traffic Assignment Freight: Firm-based

Macro-scale Meso-scale Micro-scale

For more information:

Tom Murtha312-386-8649

tmurtha@cmap.illinois.gov