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2018 Ohio Conference on Freight Cincinnati, Ohio

NCFRP 49 – New Sources of Freight Data for Urban and Metropolitan Mobility

Donald Ludlow, AICP Vice President, CPCS August 17, 2018

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A Fundamental Question: What Are Freight Data Data that track the movement, quantity, value, and type of goods; the conveyance, or vehicle, or the infrastructure that supports these movements. Freight data help us make decisions…

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National Data Sets Provide Good Intercity Coverage…

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And allow us to analyze regional freight flows…

• Focus on improving

truck observability: the detailed knowledge of truck movements and factors affecting movements

• Need finer-grained data

to address urban and metropolitan freight mobility challenges

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But, Persistent Data Gaps Make it Difficult to Address Some Challenges in Urban Goods Movement

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Urban Freight Challenges

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Potential Uses of New Data to Solve Challenges

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What are Potential Applications of [New] Data?

• Truck probe data
• Sensors (e.g. V2I, loop detectors, cameras)
• Computer vision
• Land use databases

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Applications of GPS Data (beyond bottlenecks)

Source: ATRI

• Origin-destinations, truck parking, truck touring ,
• Trip generation, land use, truck volume estimation,

model calibration

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Urban Truck Sensing (Delivery Zones)

Source: DC DOT (2016)

What was the project objective? To improve urban freight sustainability through Waze- like routing for OS/OW; real-time loading zone and parking management What were the data used? Meter transactions, still and video images

Computer Vision

Photo: Yousuf Fahimuddin

• Computer Learning

– Computers are pretty good at recognizing text

• Latest research focused
• n recognizing, tagging,

classifying audio and video

• Computers starting

to learn how to tell commercial vehicles apart

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Computer Vision Example at Intersection

Source: Miovision

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Truck Speeds in Chicago from Computer Vision

Source: CPCS analysis of data from Miovision, Fish Transportation Group, AES Services Inc., and Gewalt Hamilton Associates Inc.

Truck Data in Chicago from Computer Vision

• Illustrate how trucks

traverse network

• Can display both flows

and classification data

• Need appropriate data

source, ex. manual vs computer vision vs GPS

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Truck Speeds in Chicago from Computer Vision

Source: CPCS analysis of data from Miovision, Fish Transportation Group, AES Services Inc., and Gewalt Hamilton Associates Inc.

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Truck Speeds in Chicago from Computer Vision

Source: CPCS analysis of data from Miovision, Fish Transportation Group, AES Services Inc., and Gewalt Hamilton Associates Inc.

• Real estate / business records to assess / visualize freight clusters
• Combine with other sources (e.g. truck GPS speed data, counts, volumes)

Real Estate / Business Records to Visualize Freight and Land Use

Source: CPCS – Met Council Freight Corridors Source: CPCS – MetCouncil Freight Corridors

• Data Fusion. Most “new” data sources must be

“fused” with other sources—especially location- based data—to provide value.

• Analytical Frameworks. The analytical

procedures and business models are as important as the data sources.

• Applicability of Data to Challenges. The value

proposition of any new data source is tied to the applications that the data can support (e.g. how it addresses freight mobility challenges).

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Key Themes in Applying Freight Data to Urban Freight

• Which freight mobility challenges do you face that freight

data may inform or resolve?

• What are your data gaps and which emerging data sources may

help close them?

• What are examples of best practices in applying new data

sources?

• What are the next steps to leverage data to inform issues?
• What resources are needed staff, IT, external advice or

systems?

Considerations for Transportation Agencies

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Questions and Discussion

Donald Ludlow, MCP, AICP Vice President, United States 1000 Potomac St. NW, 5th Floor, Washington, DC 20007 C: +1 703 216 2872 | dludlow@cpcstrans.com | www.cpcstrans.com

• Strategy, economic analysis, policy, specific to transportation and energy sectors
• Multimodal transportation practice (road, rail, air, marine, pipeline)
• Global presence and experience
• Over 1000 projects in more than 90 countries

Global management consulting firm (formerly consulting arm of Canadian Pacific Railway, est. 1969)

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Introduction to CPCS

Recent North American project experience:

• Arizona State Freight Plan
• Ohio Maritime Strategy
• Florida Last-Mile Freight Data Strategies
• NCFRP 49 – New Freight Data Sources
• American Highway Users Alliance

National Bottleneck Study

• Toronto Off-Peak Deliveries Pilot
• Twin Cities Regional Truck Highway

Corridor Study

CPCS countries of work experience (shaded) and offices

Summary of Recent CPCS Experience

Freight Rail

100+ Strategy projects 8 Transactions $3+ billion in deals

Port & Terminals

35+ Strategy projects 30+ Transactions $5+ billion in deals

Multi- modal Transport

30+ Strategy projects

Passenger & Transit

10+ Strategy projects 3 transactions $3 billion in deals

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