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8/29/2019 Greater Houston Freight Committee August 27, 2018 h-gac.com h-gac.com Serving Today Planning for Tomorrow Serving Today Planning for Tomorrow Introduction/Welcome Established in 2016 by the Transportation Policy Council

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Greater Houston Freight Committee

August 27, 2018

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Introduction/Welcome

  • Established in 2016 by the Transportation Policy Council (TPC) as

recommended in the 2013 Regional Goods Movement Plan as well as guidance from the FAST Act.

  • Regularly engage and convene freight industry/goods movement

partners in the region to understand how best to maintain an on- going conversation.

  • Involve private sector freight generators, shippers, and other

logistics professionals.

  • Meet periodically to share information, make recommendations to

the TPC, and assist/direct H-GAC staff in freight planning tasks.

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Committee Agenda Roundtable

  • Houston Region Freight Rail

Study

  • Truck Parking Study
  • TxDOT PEL Studies Updates
  • IH-10: IH-69 to SH-99 (Phase 1

Complete)

  • IH-45: BW 8 North to Loop 336

South (Phase 1 Complete)

  • IH-69: Spur 527 to BW 8 South

(Phase 1 Complete)

  • SH-225 (Procurement Phase)
  • North Houston Highway

Improvement Project

  • Development of Freight Movement

Advisory Group

  • 36A EIS Update
  • Southeast Harris County Mobility

Study

  • Others?

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Ports Area Mobility Study Update

August 27, 2018

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Agenda

  • Project Recap
  • Objectives
  • Activities
  • Project Deliverable Status
  • Commodity Flow & Supply Chain Analysis
  • Potential Solutions
  • Benefit Analysis
  • Solution Considerations

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Study Objectives

  • Identify freight and goods supply chains that are dependent

upon on the region’s port facilities

  • Identify improvements to better facilitate port related freight

mobility:

  • Infrastructure and facilities
  • Multimodal improvements
  • Operational strategies
  • Policy-level changes
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Study Activities

  • Port profiles (complete)
  • Rail Assessment (complete)
  • Barge/Intracoastal Waterways Assessment

(complete)

  • Data gathering and analysis
  • Trade and cargo flow (complete)
  • Truck counts (complete)
  • Truck driver surveys (complete)
  • ATRI Truck GPS (complete)

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Study Activities

  • Supply Chain Analysis (complete)
  • Transearch Dataset
  • Datamyne and
  • Third-party Interviews
  • Improvements Identification (complete)
  • Travel Demand Modeling (on-going)
  • Benefit-Cost Assessment (on-going)
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Project Deliverables

  • Final Report consisting of Technical Memorandums:
  • Port Profiles
  • Rail
  • Barge/Intracoastal Waterways
  • Highways (in progress)
  • Supply Chain
  • Commodity Flows
  • Solutions and Strategies (in progress)

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Commodity Flow

  • Data sources
  • Texas DOT Transearch (2015)
  • STB Public and Confidential Rail Waybill Samples (2016)
  • Army Corps Waterborne Commerce of the US
  • Coverage
  • Modal focus
  • Separate analyses for trucking, rail, short sea/inland water
  • Harris, Brazoria, Galveston Counties
  • Documentation
  • Detailed Tech Memo
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Commodity Flows - Trucks

  • Trucks moved 385 million tons worth 368 billion dollars
  • 86% of tons and 69% of value related to domestic trade
  • 14% of tons and 31% of value were related to international trade
  • Trucks moved inbound to, outbound from, and within the three Port

counties

  • 40% of tons and 31% of value moved internally
  • 36% of tons and 34% of value moved inbound
  • 25% of tons and 35% of value moved outbound

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Distribution of Port County Trucks

  • 79% of tons moved Texas-to-Texas (40% within the Port counties, 39%

traded with the rest of Texas) and 21% of tons were trade with other states

  • For the 12.4% associated with export and import moves, 8.7% moved

Texas-to-Texas and 3.7% were traded with other states

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Truck O-D Patterns - Internal

  • Remembering that 40% of truck tons move within the three Port

counties: these moves are dominated by Harris County

  • Harris accounts for 86% of the originated tons
  • Harris accounts for 85% of the terminated tons
  • Harris-to-Harris moves account for 31% (120M/385M) of all truck tons

inbound to, outbound from, or within the three port counties

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Truck O-D Patterns -Outbound

  • Remembering that 25% of truck tons

move outbound from the three counties:

  • Harris originates 84% of tons (80M out
  • f 95M)
  • 19 regions receive 54% of tons
  • Leading Texas destinations
  • Fort Bend, Jefferson, Montgomery,

Dallas, Bexar, Tarrant, Matagorda, Travis

  • Leading Non-Texas destinations
  • California, Louisiana, Oklahoma,

Florida, Arkansas, Michigan, Wisconsin, Indiana, Ohio, Arizona, Illinois

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Truck O-D Patterns - Inbound

  • Remembering that 36% of truck

tons move inbound to the three counties:

  • Harris receives 88% of tons (120M
  • ut of 139M)
  • 20 regions originate 77% of tons
  • Leading Texas destinations
  • Jefferson, Bexar, Montgomery, Fort

Bend, Comal, Dallas, Williamson, Colorado, Limestone, Nueces, Bell, Waller, Calhoun, Travis, Burnet

  • Leading Non-Texas destinations
  • Louisiana, Illinois, Arkansas,

Oklahoma, Missouri

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Port-Related Trucking

  • Between 43 million tons (Transearch) and 72 million tons (USDOT FAF)
  • ut of 385 million
  • 43% of truck tons related to exports
  • Harris terminates 78% of truck tons, Galveston 12%, Brazoria 10%
  • Largest origin-destination pair is Harris County to Harris County
  • 57% of truck tons related to imports
  • Harris originates 90% of truck tons, Galveston 3% Brazoria 7%
  • Largest origin-destination pair is Harris County to Harris County

Exports are more local, imports more national; Harris is the leading originating and terminating point; Harris-to-Harris is the most critical O-D pair; remainder of Texas and adjoining states are significant but

  • ther states less so for trucks.
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Rail Commodities for Port Counties

  • Data Limitations
  • Top 12 commodities account

for 96% of carloads

  • Chemicals 32%, mostly
  • utbound
  • Intermodal 26%, mostly

inbound

  • Minerals 8%, inbound
  • Transportation equipment 8%,

mostly inbound

  • Petroleum products 7%, all

directions

  • Agriculture 6%, inbound

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Origin States for Inbound Rail

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Destination States for Outbound Rail

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Marine Highways and Texas Ports

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Marine Highways and the H-GAC Region

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Supply Chain Analysis

  • Differences from Commodity Flow Analysis
  • Industry focused
  • Perishable Foods; Other Foods and Beverages; Other Agricultural Products;

Chemicals; Plastics in Primary Forms; Building Materials; Iron and Steel and Articles of Iron and Steel; Machinery; Motor Vehicles; Other Consumer Goods; key subgroups in each category

  • Combines modal data with additional resources
  • US Census Trade data and Commodity Flow Survey
  • Datamyne import-export records (similar to PIERS)
  • County Business Patterns zip code level employment
  • Transearch and Freight Analysis Framework forecasts
  • Validated with stakeholder interviews
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Example – Grain Exports

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Example – Grain Exports

Texas counties

  • riginating grain

exports through Houston

Texas counties

  • riginating grain

exports through Galveston

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Feedback from Industries Trucking Manpower and Congestion

The lack of available truckers, limitations on driving hours (and related expenses for required equipment) were mentioned as constraints, although these issues were seen as affecting overall service but not directly controllable by ports. Similarly, growth in traffic both in the HGAC region and in more distant markets (e.g. Dallas), surges in freight traffic, and general congestion (e.g. between the Port of Houston and Baytown) were mentioned as potentially worsening the ability to move containers from the port to distribution centers with a need to improve/expand local roads.

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Feedback from Industries

Container Logistics

The ability to manage container movements and availability were common themes. This included:

  • The need to transload locally rather than use containers for distant delivery

(stranding the container that must be returned).

  • The difficulty in managing “street turns” to allow containers to be used more
  • efficiently. The general point is that there is no “system” in place to make this work

given the participants are all independent actors. The availability of extended gate times did not appear to be a general solution to truck delays due to variability due to seasonality, weather, freight timing uncertainties, etc. This could be a useful possibility if it could be responsive to short‐term conditions.

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Proposed Improvements

  • Identified range of solutions and strategies that support
  • Infrastructure and facilities
  • Multimodal improvements
  • Operational strategies
  • Policy-level changes
  • Strategies/Solutions include
  • Extended gate times at container terminals
  • Terminal Gate Appointment System
  • Inland Port
  • Port centric warehousing etc.
  • Freight Shuttle
  • Container on barge
  • Virtual container yard
  • I-69 bypass
  • Independence Parkway Bridge

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Solutions – Model based on Baytown

Imports ‐ circa 80,000 FEU Exports ‐ circa 158,000 FEU*

* ‐ based on plastic resin exports only

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Virtual Container Yard (VCY)/Street turn

  • Already occurring

in Houston, but unknown level of activity.

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VCY/Street turn Benefits

Overall Saving of 1.9M truck miles per annum Overall Saving of 1.9M Truck miles per annum Virtual Container Yard Benefits Analysis Results (Millions, 2017 Dollars) thru to 2040 Benefit Category Undiscounted Benefits Travel Time Savings $34.3 Accident Cost Savings $10.1 Emissions Cost Savings $5.5 Total $49.8 Container Flow Scenario 1 (FEU Containers) Comments Imports 71,516 90% of import containers street turned to an export container Exports 104,167

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VCY/Street turn Operating Strategies

  • Appointing a Street Turn/Matchback coordinator for the region
  • Funding to support a position – 12-18 months
  • Hosted by an organization e.g. PoH, H-GAC, Texas Trucking Association
  • Produce a Request for Expression of Interest (RFEI) for a system

provider who supplies street turn solutions

  • Administration of street turns is a barrier to increased adoption
  • Matchback Systems incorporated into Port of LA Port Optimizer System

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Freight Shuttle Type Concept

Source: Freight Shuttle Systems

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Freight Shuttle Type Concept

  • System 1. Shuttle between port

container terminal and transfer yard and then truck to final destination

  • Two Scenarios
  • 60% of import and 90% export

containers

  • 20% of import and 50% export

containers

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Freight Shuttle Type Concept

  • System 2. Shuttle between

container terminal and customer facilities

  • Two Scenarios
  • 100% of import and export

containers

  • 60% of import and export

containers

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Freight Shuttle Type Concept - Benefits

System 1 System 2

60% of import and 90% export containers 20% of import and 50% export containers 100% of import and export containers 60% of import and export containers

Truck Travel Time Savings (M) $162.2 $80.4 $265.3 $159.2 Accident Cost Savings (M) $46.6 $23.1 $77.2 $46.3 Emissions Cost Savings (M) $25.5 $12.6 $42.2 $25.3 Total (M) $234.3 $116.1 $384.6 $230.8 Annual Truck Mile Savings (M) 5.02 2.2 8.1 4.8

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Freight Shuttle Type Concept

  • Competitive with trucking on time, operational considerations,

labor resources

  • Challenge is cost
  • Infrastructure cost plus operational costs
  • High density corridor to Baytown has attractive characteristics

for Freight Shuttle Concepts

  • Volume of Import and Export containers
  • Revenue flows in both directions
  • Heavy Weight containers (resin exports)
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Container-on-Barge

Existing barge facility

  • Existing services

focused with PoH

  • Potential for
  • thers? E.g. Port
  • f Freeport to

Port of Houston

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Container on Barge - Benefits

Scenario 1 Scenario 2

60% of import and 90% export containers 20% of import and 50% export containers

Truck Travel Time Savings (M) $107.9 $68.7 Accident Cost Savings (M) $27.5 $14.0 Emissions Cost Savings (M) $8.6 $4.3 Total (M) $144 $87 Annual Truck Mile Savings (M) 3.02 1.49

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Container on Barge – Potential Solutions

  • Challenge of

integrating barge within terminal

  • perations.
  • Barge is second to
  • cean going vessels

when assigning berths

  • Lack of berth

availability impacts barge reliability

  • Segregate barge
  • perations from
  • cean going vessels

Source: Port of Houston

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Container on Barge – Potential Solutions

  • Potential solutions

include:

  • Self Discharging Barge

Source: Mercurius

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Container on Barge – Potential Solutions

  • Container Handling equipment

Source: Kalmar

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Container on Barge – Potential Solutions

  • Dedicated barge facility

Source: Alpherium ‐ Holland

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I -69 Bypass

  • Relief route around Houston Urban

Core

  • Connecting Wharton on the

southwest to Cleveland/Livingston

  • n the northeast
  • Carrying traffic from Port of

Freeport, Port of Galveston, Port of Houston to east, northeast and the north

  • Grand Parkway and Route 146 as

potential alignment

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Independence Parkway Bridge

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Questions

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Update on Texas Freight Advisory Committee Activities

August 27, 2018

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Regional Goods Movement Plan Update

August 27, 2018

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Regional Goods Movement Plan Update

  • Update to the 2013 Regional Goods

Movement Plan

  • Regional Goods Movement Today
  • Freight System in the MPO area
  • Freight Significant Corridors and

Facilities

  • Commodity Flow Patterns
  • Key Industries
  • Key Trends
  • Employment/Population Growth
  • International Trade
  • Supply Chains
  • Transportation Industry Trends
  • Regulations and Policy
  • Key Issues and Challenges
  • Growth outpacing capacity
  • Managing Existing Capacity
  • Community & Environmental Issues
  • Solutions and Recommendations
  • Short Term
  • Long Term
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Houston-Beaumont Freight Rail Study

Highway-Railroad Crossing Prioritization

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Houston-Beaumont Freight Rail Study

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Houston-Beaumont Freight Rail Study

  • Rail-highway crossings are public-private partnerships
  • More freight trains moving = potentially fewer trucks
  • Looking for win-win projects: new bridge relieves congestion and allows

room for railroads to operate and comply with federal rules.

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Houston-Beaumont Freight Rail Study

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Houston-Beaumont Freight Rail Study

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Houston-Beaumont Freight Rail Study

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Houston-Beaumont Freight Rail Study

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Houston-Beaumont Freight Rail Study

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Houston-Beaumont Freight Rail Study

Schedule

  • Summer 2019: gather data for rail traffic modeling & seek feedback to

identify community priorities

  • Fall 2019: model and assess potential rail operational improvements
  • Spring 2020: conceptual bridge design for grade separations at priority

locations

  • Full report published in 2020

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Houston-Beaumont Freight Rail Study

  • Email TxDOT: rrd_railplan@txdot.gov
  • Internet search: Houston Rail Study
  • https://www.txdot.gov/inside-txdot/projects/studies/statewide/houston-

beaumont-freight-rail.html

  • Contact TxDOT to get data on railroad crossings in your neighborhood
  • r city or for help getting feedback from your community.
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Freight Activities from Committee

Committee attendees may briefly discuss current and future freight transportation efforts

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Announcements

August 27, 2019

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Announcements

  • September Brown Bag Lunch Series – “Houston’s Resin Export

Dominance”, featuring Jordan Frisby, Port Houston, Monday, September 16, 2019, Noon – 1:00pm, Room B

  • Next Technical Advisory Committee Meeting – September 18,

2019, 9:30 am, Room B

  • Next Transportation Policy Committee Meeting – September

27, 2019, 9:30 am, Room B

  • Next Greater Houston Freight Committee Meeting (Tentative)

– December 5, 2019, 1:30, Room B

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Adjourn

Thank you!