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MnDOT District 2 Freight Plan Advisory Committee: Meeting #2 mndot.gov Introductions Andrew Andrusko Project Manager, State Freight Planner with the Office of Freight and Commercial Vehicle Operations Nancy Graham Planning Director for

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MnDOT District 2 Freight Plan Advisory Committee: Meeting #2

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Introductions

Andrew Andrusko Nancy Graham James Curran Dan Haake Katie Caskey Caroline Miller Project Manager, State Freight Planner with the Office of Freight and Commercial Vehicle Operations Planning Director for District 2 Assistant District Engineer District 2 HDR Project Manager HDR Engagement Lead HDR Freight System Profile Lead

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MnDOT Freight Planning

  • MnDOT has been working to implement the recently adopted statewide

freight plan called the Minnesota State Freight System and Investment Plan

  • One of the key recommendations was to work with each area of the state to

create more detailed plans that would identify improvements to connect with the Minnesota Highway Freight Program

Statewide Freight Vision & Goals Statewide Freight Performance Measures Identify Freight Freight System System Needs Recommendations Advance Top Investments

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Purpose of this Effort

The District 2 Freight Plan will:

I. Provide an up-to-date assessment of freight needs and issues specific to the District

  • II. Produce a list of strategies to improve freight mobility in the Northern and

Northwest Minnesota region

  • III. Roll up long-term planning and programming in the next Statewide Freight

System Plan

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MnDOT District 2

  • MnDOT is split up operationally into regional

districts

  • District 2 - Northwest Minnesota
  • Duration: May 2019 – July 2020

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Project Overview

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  • 1. Review Project Approach/Work P
  • 2. Discuss Outreach Efforts
  • 3. Freight System Profile

1. Economics 2. Identifying System Needs

Today’s Goals

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Major Tasks

Stakeholder Outreach

Communications Plan Survey Interviews

Document Synthesis

Inform Stakeholder Effort Lay the Groundwork

Data Analysis

Freight and Economic Profile Conditions and Performance

SWOT Analysis

Develop recommendations based on analysis/outreach

Implementation Plan

Integration into the MHFP

Project Feasibility

Conceptual Design and Cost

Implementation

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Advisory Committee Meetings

Meeting 3

  • Stakeholder

Outreach Results

  • SWOT

Meeting 4

  • Major Findings
  • Evaluation of

Projects

Meeting 1

  • Review Work Plan &

Past Work

  • Identify Trends,

Meeting 2

  • Freight System

Profile

  • Economic Profile
  • Initial

Recommendations Needs

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Lessons from Meeting #1

Needs Lessons TH 317 Widening Identification of Missing Stakeholders TH 57 Important for Freight Seasonality of the District Lack of Major N/S Roadways Pipeline Concerns No Freeways Low Volume Roads Important to Freight/Seasonality Lack of Rail Capacity for Grain Safety Concerns, More than Going Fast Increased Truck Size and Weight (and Harmonization) Safety – Mix of Vehicle Types Shoulders (Size and Multiple Uses) Trucks Also Turn into Farm Fields (Safety) Truck Parking Commuting into TRF for Digi-Key Winter Weather Signage Trade with Canada

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Outreach

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Interviews

  • Shifted from listening sessions to more interviews
  • Due to geography
  • Mix of in-person and phone interviews
  • List of Potential Interviewees
  • What and who are we missing?
  • Additional interviews after the first group

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Initial Interviewee List (Draft)

Shippers/Receivers

  • R.D. Offutt Farms - Potato

Farm (SW)

  • Crystal Sugar (SW)
  • Marvin Windows (NE)
  • Thief River Falls Airport (NW)
  • Bemidji Airport
  • CHS North, SE, SW (All)
  • Manufacturer home

distributors and manufacturers in the region Carriers

  • Minnesota Northern
  • CP (All)
  • BNSF (All)
  • Paradis Trucking (SW)
  • CENEX (All)
  • Eric Johnson Trucking

(Unknown)

  • Greg Hanson Trucking (NW)
  • Nagurski Transportation (NE)
  • Skeen Trucking (Unknown)
  • Spee-Dee Delivery Service, Inc

(SE) Association/Government

  • Minnesota Timber Producers

Association or Minnesota Forest Industries

  • US 2 Manufacturer's

Association

  • MPO

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Online Survey

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Freight System Profile: Economics

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Overall Economic Growth

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Minnesota Economy

2018 MINNESOTA GDP: $386 B

Freight Dependent Industries 37% Other Industries 63%

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Minnesota’s Freight Dependent Industries

Transportation and Manufacturing 38% 2% 8% 4% Agriculture, forestry, fishing and Mining, quarrying, and oil warehousing hunting and gas extraction Utilities 4% Construction 11% Wholesale and retail trade 33%

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District 2 – Overall Employment

Freight Dependent Industries, 44% Other Industries, 56%

79,629 Jobs

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District 2 - Freight Related Jobs

Forestry, fishing, and related activities 2% Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction 1% Utilities 1% Construction 15% Manufacturing 29% Wholesale and Retail Trade 47% Transportation and warehousing 5%

34,750 Jobs

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District 2 - Location Quotients

15 13 11 9 7 5 3 1

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Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction Utilities Construction Manufacturing Wholesale trade Retail trade Transportation and warehousing 10/21/2019 LOCATION QUOTIENTS Beltrami 1.49 1.03 0.57 0.52 1.52 0.77 Clearwater 3.21 2.78 0.25 0.83 Hubbard 1.67 1.24 1.64 0.17 1.85 0.67 Kittson 0.35 1.48 1.97 1.26 0.95 mndot.gov Lake of the Woods 9.32 1.38 0.64 Marshall 0.57 1.12 2.27 1.21 Norman 15.12 0.44 0.14 1.18 1.14 Pennington 0.6 0.18 0.97 9.35 0.86 Polk 10.48 0.12 0.78 0.66 1.82 0.86 1.12 1.24 Red Lake Roseau 8.54 1.35 0.08 6.37 1.36 0.69 3.24 0.23 21

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District 2 – Freight Related Jobs

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Sugar beets (Tons Produced)

Kittson Marshall Norman Pennington Polk Red Lake

  • 500,000

1,000,000 1,500,000 2,000,000 2,500,000 3,000,000 2017 2018 10/21/2019 mndot.gov 23

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Sugar Beet Locations

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Freight System Profile: Overview

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Freight System

  • Highways
  • Railroads
  • Pipelines
  • Airports
  • International Border Crossings

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District 2 Freight System Assets

Airports (number) Rail line (miles) Bridges (number) Trunk highway (lane miles) Trunk highway (centerline miles) 1,803 3,905 355 581 22 11,733 29,233 4,839 4,449 134 5,000 10,000 15,000 20,000 25,000 30,000 35,000 Statewide D2

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Highway System

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Highway System

  • No Interstates in District 2

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National Truck Network

  • Includes a few routes on

National Truck Network

  • Adjacent to I-29 and

Pembina, ND port of entry

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Statewide Truck Parking

3 public rest areas

  • Park Rapids
  • Erskine
  • Fisher

Source: Minnesota Truck Parking Study analysis of 2015 Jason’s Law Survey, 2017 Trucker’s Friend National Truck Stop Directory, NATSO Park My Truck app, TA-Petro TruckSmart app, Pilot- Flying J myPilot app and Trucker Path app data.

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Streetlight Methodology

  • StreetLight Insight data
  • Uses Truck and Cell phone GPS data
  • Output is “StreetLight Trip Index,” represents relative volume of trip activity
  • Data output by Census Block Group
  • Since Block Groups are relatively small geographic areas, the resulting trip

volume percentages are low per Block Group

  • MnDOT’s dataset not include data from Canada

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Freight Trip Volume Originating in D2 - Region

Streetlight Insight Data – Block Group Level

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Freight Trip Volume Originating in D2

Streetlight Insight Data – Block Group Level

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Freight Trip Volume Ending in D2 - Region

Streetlight Insight Data – Block Group Level

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Freight Trip Volume Ending in D2

Streetlight Insight Data – Block Group Level

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Highway Crash Analysis

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Freight Related Crashes

Crashes (2009-2018) Count Freight Related 872 All other 11,573 Total 12,445

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Crash by Severity Type

2009-2018 Data (does not include property damage

  • nly crashes)

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Freight Crash Concentration

2009-2018 Data (does not include property damage

  • nly crashes)

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Crash by Route Type

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Crash Characteristics

  • Roadway surface condition not a factor (e.g. snow, mud, wet)
  • Lighting conditions not a factor (e.g. daylight, night time)
  • 75% of truck drivers involved in freight crashes were between the ages of 30

and 64, while the remaining 13% consisted of drivers 65 years and older.

  • 27 of the 872 (3%) District 2 freight-related crashes involved more than 1

heavy truck.

  • 23 of the 872 (3%) District 2 freight-related crashes occurred in work zones.

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Rail System

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Rail System

  • Class I Operators
  • Burlington Northern Santa Fe (red)
  • Canadian National (blue)
  • Canadian Pacific (yellow)

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Class 3 Rail Operators

  • Class 3 Operators:
  • Minnesota Northern Railroad (green)
  • Northern Plains Railroad (purple)

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Intermodal Terminals

  • Ada, MN

Pembina

  • Triple Crown Nutrition
  • West Central Ag

Thief River Falls

  • Thief River Falls, MN
  • CP Railway
  • Intermodals near D2

Ada

  • Pembina, ND
  • Fargo, ND

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At-Grade Rail Crossings

  • 136 at-grade rail crossings
  • BNSF line has rail vertical

clearance issues (along US 2)

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Rail Crashes

  • 12 reported freight-related crashes

at railway grade crossings

  • 2009 – 2018

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Other Freight Modes

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Pipelines

  • Crude oil – 583 miles
  • Hydrocarbon Gas Liquid (HGL) – 150 miles
  • Natural Gas – 378 miles
  • Petroleum product – 148 miles

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Airports/Aviation

  • Thief River Falls
  • Digi-Key
  • Growth: 49.52 %
  • 2017-2018 Landed Weight
  • Bemidji
  • Belly Freight
  • Encore Air Cargo
  • FedEx Feeder

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Next Steps

  • Short term:
  • Stakeholder Outreach
  • SWOT/Initial Recommendations
  • Long term:

1) Develop major findings 2) Create final document

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Questions

Andrew Andrusko, AICP State Freight Planner Office of Freight and Commercial Vehicle Operations Minnesota Department of Transportation Email: andrew.andrusko@state.mn.us Tel: 651-366-3644

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