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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 (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. h-gac.com Serving Today • Planning for Tomorrow 1

8/29/2019 Committee Agenda Roundtable  Houston Region Freight Rail  North Houston Highway Study Improvement Project • Development of Freight Movement  Truck Parking Study Advisory Group  TxDOT PEL Studies Updates  36A EIS Update • IH-10: IH-69 to SH-99 (Phase 1  Southeast Harris County Mobility Complete) Study • IH-45: BW 8 North to Loop 336 South (Phase 1 Complete)  Others? • IH-69: Spur 527 to BW 8 South (Phase 1 Complete) • SH-225 (Procurement Phase) h-gac.com Serving Today • Planning for Tomorrow Ports Area Mobility Study Update August 27, 2018 h-gac.com h-gac.com Serving Today • Planning for Tomorrow Serving Today • Planning for Tomorrow 2

8/29/2019 Agenda  Project Recap • Objectives • Activities  Project Deliverable Status  Commodity Flow & Supply Chain Analysis  Potential Solutions • Benefit Analysis • Solution Considerations h-gac.com h-gac.com Serving Today • Planning for Tomorrow Serving Today • Planning for Tomorrow 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 h-gac.com h-gac.com Serving Today • Planning for Tomorrow Serving Today • Planning for Tomorrow 3

8/29/2019 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) h-gac.com h-gac.com Serving Today • Planning for Tomorrow Serving Today • Planning for Tomorrow 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) h-gac.com h-gac.com Serving Today • Planning for Tomorrow Serving Today • Planning for Tomorrow 4

8/29/2019 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) h-gac.com h-gac.com Serving Today • Planning for Tomorrow Serving Today • Planning for Tomorrow Commodity Flow • Data sources o Texas DOT Transearch (2015) o STB Public and Confidential Rail Waybill Samples (2016) o Army Corps Waterborne Commerce of the US • Coverage o Modal focus o Separate analyses for trucking, rail, short sea/inland water o Harris, Brazoria, Galveston Counties • Documentation o Detailed Tech Memo h-gac.com h-gac.com Serving Today • Planning for Tomorrow Serving Today • Planning for Tomorrow 5

8/29/2019 Commodity Flows - Trucks • Trucks moved 385 million tons worth 368 billion dollars o 86% of tons and 69% of value related to domestic trade o 14% of tons and 31% of value were related to international trade • Trucks moved inbound to, outbound from, and within the three Port counties o 40% of tons and 31% of value moved internally o 36% of tons and 34% of value moved inbound o 25% of tons and 35% of value moved outbound h-gac.com h-gac.com Serving Today • Planning for Tomorrow Serving Today • Planning for Tomorrow 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 h-gac.com h-gac.com Serving Today • Planning for Tomorrow Serving Today • Planning for Tomorrow 6

8/29/2019 Truck O-D Patterns - Internal • Remembering that 40% of truck tons move within the three Port counties: these moves are dominated by Harris County o Harris accounts for 86% of the originated tons o 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 h-gac.com h-gac.com Serving Today • Planning for Tomorrow Serving Today • Planning for Tomorrow Truck O-D Patterns -Outbound • Remembering that 25% of truck tons move outbound from the three counties: o Harris originates 84% of tons (80M out of 95M) o 19 regions receive 54% of tons • Leading Texas destinations o Fort Bend, Jefferson, Montgomery, Dallas, Bexar, Tarrant, Matagorda, Travis • Leading Non-Texas destinations o California, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Florida, Arkansas, Michigan, Wisconsin, Indiana, Ohio, Arizona, Illinois h-gac.com h-gac.com Serving Today • Planning for Tomorrow Serving Today • Planning for Tomorrow 7

8/29/2019 Truck O-D Patterns - Inbound • Remembering that 36% of truck tons move inbound to the three counties: o Harris receives 88% of tons (120M out of 139M) o 20 regions originate 77% of tons • Leading Texas destinations o Jefferson, Bexar, Montgomery, Fort Bend, Comal, Dallas, Williamson, Colorado, Limestone, Nueces, Bell, Waller, Calhoun, Travis, Burnet • Leading Non-Texas destinations o Louisiana, Illinois, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Missouri h-gac.com h-gac.com Serving Today • Planning for Tomorrow Serving Today • Planning for Tomorrow Port-Related Trucking • Between 43 million tons (Transearch) and 72 million tons (USDOT FAF) out of 385 million • 43% of truck tons related to exports o Harris terminates 78% of truck tons, Galveston 12%, Brazoria 10% o Largest origin-destination pair is Harris County to Harris County • 57% of truck tons related to imports o Harris originates 90% of truck tons, Galveston 3% Brazoria 7% o 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 other states less so for trucks. h-gac.com h-gac.com Serving Today • Planning for Tomorrow Serving Today • Planning for Tomorrow 8

8/29/2019 Rail Commodities for Port Counties • Data Limitations • Top 12 commodities account for 96% of carloads o Chemicals 32%, mostly outbound o Intermodal 26%, mostly inbound o Minerals 8%, inbound o Transportation equipment 8%, mostly inbound o Petroleum products 7%, all directions o Agriculture 6%, inbound h-gac.com h-gac.com Serving Today • Planning for Tomorrow Serving Today • Planning for Tomorrow Origin States for Inbound Rail h-gac.com h-gac.com Serving Today • Planning for Tomorrow Serving Today • Planning for Tomorrow 9

8/29/2019 Destination States for Outbound Rail h-gac.com h-gac.com Serving Today • Planning for Tomorrow Serving Today • Planning for Tomorrow Marine Highways and Texas Ports h-gac.com h-gac.com Serving Today • Planning for Tomorrow Serving Today • Planning for Tomorrow 10

8/29/2019 Marine Highways and the H-GAC Region h-gac.com h-gac.com Serving Today • Planning for Tomorrow Serving Today • Planning for Tomorrow Supply Chain Analysis • Differences from Commodity Flow Analysis o Industry focused o 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 o US Census Trade data and Commodity Flow Survey o Datamyne import-export records (similar to PIERS) o County Business Patterns zip code level employment o Transearch and Freight Analysis Framework forecasts • Validated with stakeholder interviews h-gac.com h-gac.com Serving Today • Planning for Tomorrow Serving Today • Planning for Tomorrow 11

8/29/2019 Example – Grain Exports feed mills in southern China seeking cheaper substitutes for expensive domestically produced corn. h-gac.com h-gac.com Serving Today • Planning for Tomorrow Serving Today • Planning for Tomorrow Example – Grain Exports Texas counties originating grain exports through Houston Texas counties originating grain exports through Galveston h-gac.com h-gac.com Serving Today • Planning for Tomorrow Serving Today • Planning for Tomorrow 12