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-Summary:
This webinar will focus on ITS strategies that improve trucking operations for the benefit of improved mobility and public safety. There is a growing need for the public sector to include freight planning into the management of the transportation system—especially the highway system. Population growth, typically in urban areas, will result in increased demand for infrastructure to move large amounts of freight. Factors such as changing demographics, e-commerce, home deliveries versus store deliveries, automated vehicles and trucks, and the shift to regional warehouses to facilitate just-in-time deliveries, will add to today's increasing congestion challenge.
While commercial vehicles currently account for only 9 percent of all vehicle highway miles traveled, the Federal Highway Administration estimates that in the next 30 years there will be 60 percent more trucks using the highway system. Incorporating ITS will be an important strategy to integrate freight activities with other modes of transportation and to monitor freight movement activity, including regulatory restrictions designed to support safe highway operations, economic productivity, and environmental stewardship.
Agenda
Mr. Edward Fok will present a description of work done at the port of Los Angeles/Long Beach (LA/LB) that enabled truck/terminal operational improvements through advanced data sharing. He will also discuss the ITS-based truck parking project being developed on the I-5 Corridor in California.
Mr. Mark A. Jensen will provide a technical update on two U.S. DOT-sponsored prototype programs that are focusing on improving freeway freight operations: (1) A test program in California that is currently testing 3-truck platoon connected vehicle (CV) technology with the intent of deploying this technology on the planned I-710 dedicated truck lanes in the 2020s; and (2) a prototype version of FRATIS that is focused on optimization of truck trips around work zones, incidents, and congestion on the I-35 corridor in Texas.
Dr. Sam Fayez will discuss the development and deployment of an open-source optimization algorithm for the freight industry, drayage optimization results in Memphis, and the impact assessment of the Smart Roadside Initiative.
Mr. Jeffrey Purdy will discuss the recent CV Pilot Program's ICF International/Wyoming project. The primary objective of the ICF International/Wyoming CV Pilot is to reduce the number of truck blow-over incidents and adverse weather related incidents (including secondary incidents) on the I-80 corridor in order to improve safety and reduce incident-related delays.
Learning Objectives:
Attendees of the webinar will expect to learn about:
- The importance of freight operations as part of the total transportation management and systems operations
- The issues, challenges, and lessons learned from the implementation and testing of FRATIS
- The impact that automated tools have in assisting enforcement personnel make compliance and inspection selection decisions
- The development of ITS-based truck parking solutions designed to detect truck parking space availability and deliver that information to truck drivers
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Instructors:
Tom Kearney, Senior Freight Specialist, U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)
Mr. Kearney joined the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) in 2000 after serving for 15 years at New York State's Department of Transportation. Mr. Kearney recently joined FHWA's Resource Center Planning & Freight Team after serving for eight years as the Freight Operations Program Manager in FHWA's Freight Office. Prior to that, he served for seven years as a Statewide Planner in the New York Division Office. Mr. Kearney is a key content reviewer for two of the three Connected Vehicle (CV) Pilot Program projects and is involved with a number of other ITS-Freight related projects. He served as Secretary to the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) Subcommittee on Highway Transport (SCOHT) from 2011-2015 and is a current member of the Transportation Research Board's (TRB) Truck Size & Weight Committee (AT055). Mr. Kearney also serves on the Community Advisory Board for the Regional Planning Program at Albany State University.
Moderator:
Katherine K. Hartman, Chief, Research, Evaluation, & Program Management, ITS Joint Program Office, U.S. Department of Transportation
Edward Fok, P.E., PTOE, Transportation Technology Specialist, U.S. DOT/FHWA Resource Center
Mr. Fok supports FHWA division and headquarters efforts to utilize technology to meet mobility and safety challenges. He is an active participant in many advanced technology and research efforts at both Turner-Fairbanks Highway Research Laboratory and the Research and Innovative Technology Administration. The technical areas he operates in includes Integrated Corridor Management, CVs, Transportation Cyber Security, Automated Vehicles, and Advanced Freight Systems. Mr. Fok holds degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California at Irvine and Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California.
Mark A. Jensen, PMP, Principal, Cambridge Systematics
Over the past two decades, Mr. Jensen has successfully managed and delivered multiple freight ITS research and technology projects, and has fostered the development of public-private partnerships to support these types of systems. Currently, he is involved in three U.S. DOT-sponsored projects related to CV technologies: developing a Vehicle-to-Vehicle and Vehicle-to-Infrastructure Concept of Operations for truck platooning on the I-710 in Los Angeles; leading an impacts assessment of the deployment of a freight optimization system for trucks on the I-35 corridor in Texas; and developing CV guidelines for state and local planners. Additionally, he has led twelve U.S. DOT-sponsored independent evaluations of freight ITS tests, covering technologies such as freight information exchange standards, sensor integration, CV apps. and enforcement monitoring.
Dr. Sam Fayez, Productivity Apex, Inc.
Dr. Fayez has 20 years of progressive experience and education credentials in Industrial Engineering and Supply Chain Management. He is the Director of Transportation and Logistics at Productivity Apex, Inc. He led and directed numerous public and private projects in logistics, transportation, freight, simulation, and optimization. Dr. Fayez directs the development and deployment of FRATIS projects in multiple major cities throughout the United States. He holds a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from the University of Central Florida.
Jeffrey R. Purdy, AICP, PTP, Technical Services Team Leader/Transportation Planner, FHWA, Wyoming Division
Over the past 25 years, Mr. Purdy has worked on a wide variety of transportation, land use, and environmental planning projects at local, State, and Federal levels. Mr. Purdy currently serves as the Technical Services Team Leader and Transportation Planner for the FHWA Wyoming Division. His responsibilities include oversight of statewide and metropolitan transportation planning, freight planning, vehicle size and weight, and transportation performance management. Prior to joining FHWA, Mr. Purdy worked for a community and transportation planning consulting firm in Michigan. While in consulting, he had the opportunity to work on a number of projects including comprehensive plans, transportation Environmental Impact Statements/Environmental Assessments, highway corridor studies, transit projects, and multimodal transportation plans. He began his career as a planner for the Air Force, working on National Environmental Protection Act compliance for Air Force projects, base comprehensive planning, and site plans for the military construction program. Mr. Purdy holds a Master's of Urban Planning from Michigan State University.
Target Audience:
- Federal, State DOT, and Metropolitan Planning Organization ITS program managers, planners, and engineers
- Public safety personnel involved in freight compliance and regulations
- Freight logistic planners and those involved coordinating all aspects of the supply chain
- Consultants, academia, vendors, government officials, researchers, and students and those wanting to learn more about the increasing need for integrating freight operations with other modes of transportation management, especially activities coordinated from a Transportation Management Center
- Motor carriers