1. Freight Corridor Study
National I-10
Freight Corridor Study
PROJECT OVERVIEW
T E A M

2. Study Area

3. Total I-10 Truck Flows

4. US/Mx Border Crossing Truck Flows

5. Ports of Influence along I-10 – TEU’s

6. Total Economic Impact I-10 Corridor Trade (2000)
Trade Value: $1.38 Trillion
Jobs: Million
Earnings: $ Billion
Source: Wilbur Smith Associates

7. Mid-Term and Long-Term
Time Horizons
2008
2013
2025
Short-Term
Mid-Term and Long-Term
Bottlenecks
Physical
Operational
Strategic
Innovative technologies
Operational solutions
State Specific
Corridor-Wide

8. Study Scenario Development
Scenarios were a
function of:
Economy & trade
Operational impacts
innovation
Seven Scenarios
(compared against the base case)
Fundable
Supportable
Practicality
(can it be implemented)
A mix of modular solutions:
Capacity
Technological
Operational
Policy
Private Industry

9. Potential Strategies Scenario 1: Widening Scenario 2: ITS
Others
Scenario 3: Truck/Auto Separation
Scenario 4: Multimodal Rail Corridor
Scenario 5: Multimodal Waterway Corridor
Scenario 6: Urban Truck Bypass
Scenario 7: Truck Productivity
Scenario 2: ITS
Scenario 1: Widening
Potential Strategies

10. Scenario 1: Widening
Potential Strategies

11. Needs Versus Expenditure Trends

12. Scenario 1: Widening
Potential Strategies
Scenario 2: ITS

13. ITS - User Service Bundles
1. Advanced Transportation Mgmt
2. Advanced Traveler Information
Assumes ITS
deployments
progress
over time
3. Maintenance and Construction Ops
4. Multi-Agency TMC
5. Commercial Vehicle Ops (CVO)
6. Advanced Vehicle Safety Systems
7. Emergency Management
8. Integration
Note: Italicized bundles are not included in the National ITS Architecture

14. ITS Capital Costs Full Build- Out to 2025
Field Devices = $33.6 million
TMC Development = $97.0 million
Full Build-
Out to
2025
Communications Infrastructure =
$474.9 million
Total Costs = $605.5 million
Total Benefits = $1,785.3 million
B/C Ratio = 3.0

15. Summary of Results Deficient Mileage - Reduction
Added Lanes
Truck/Auto Separation
Rail
Barge

16. What combination of options (menu) Provides best outcome?
Scenario 1: Widening
What combination of options (menu)
Provides best outcome?
Scenario 2: ITS
Scenario 3: Truck/Auto Separation
Scenario 4: Multimodal Rail Corridor
Scenario 5: Multimodal Waterway Corridor
Scenario 6: Urban Truck Bypass
Scenario 7: Truck Productivity
Others

17. Comprehensive Congestion Management Plan
Where Feasible
Add More Lanes
Corridor-wide
ITS/CVO
Traditional DOT Strategies
PLUS
Where Makes Sense
Truck/Auto Separation
Urban Bypass
Truck Productivity
Potential DOT Freight Strategies
Entire Corridor
Rail Intermodal Development
Gulf States
Barge Service Development

18. Not a Traditional Highway Corridor Study
Address Range of Policy Issues
Multimodal Approach
Need for Increased Funding
Transportation & the Economy
Drive freight innovations
Identify the State DOT’s Role in Freight

19. Issues Cut Across State LinesB
Jobs
Freight issues transcend boundaries
Safety, capacity, emissions, funding,
continued growth, etc

20. Increasingly Service Oriented Expect Continued Reliance on Trucks
Also…..
Our Economy
Increasingly Service Oriented
Expect Continued Reliance on Trucks
Need for Reliable
Highway System

21. Lessons from the I-10 study
Grow the Pie
The Interstate Highway System’s capacity for inter-regional goods movement and travel is vital to the nation’s economic health.
Analysis of mobility demands and ways to meet those demands, clearly indicate a need for increasing
maintenance and enhancement funding to expand goods movement capacity across the I-10 corridor.
Increased funding should not be “categorized”, so that states can tailor the mix of capacity increasing improvements to those that are feasible and work best in any given area.

22. Lessons from the I-10 study (cont’d)
Technology Accelerators
Technology strategies (e.g. ITS/CVO) show high Returns on Investment and should be a component of any capacity improvements.
Implementing a standard architecture through-
out the corridor will accelerate the impact of
technology innovations
Innovations in highway development (e.g. auto/truck separation) and in truck mobility/
operations (mass flow concepts) should be accelerated
through research, investment and deployment.

23. Lessons from the I-10 study (cont’d)
From Each Mode According To Its Ability, To Each Mode According To Its Need
All system elements; interstate and state highways, local streets and roads, railroads, airborne and waterborne conveyances satisfy certain mobility demands most efficiently.
Each element must continue to contribute to overall mobility and should be enhanced as feasible.
Prevent inappropriate intermodal shifts of mobility
burdens (such as using the Interstate System to satisfy local circulation needs and using trucks to carry bulk commodities best moved by rail or barge) can delay the need for, and reduce the magnitude of, Interstate System capacity improvements.

24. Future Roles for the I-10 Partnership
Promote the lessons learned from the I-10 Study.
Develop and implement a consensus ITS architecture, integrated with improvement efforts on other corridors.
Help shape the FSHRP (Future Strategic Highway Research Program) agenda.
Serve as a forum for sharing successes, challenges, innovations, and war stories.

25. The Major I-10 Corridor ITS Themes
Increase transportation security
Enhance overall mobility
Ease freight congestion

26. Why Should ITS Along the I-10 Corridor Be Integrated??
The best way to maximize the benefits of ITS is
through the integration of different systems.
- ATMS/ emergency coordination
- Multi-state coordination improves efficiency
and security of entire network
From the original study:
Total Costs = $605.5 million
Total Benefits = $1,785.3 million
B/C Ratio = 3.0

27. What is Happening Now?
Many metro areas along I-10 have implemented elements of the National ITS Architecture
Integrated ATMS and ATIS
Emergency + ATMS coordination
Not all states have implemented statewide elements
Regions, states, MPO’s do not share info across the corridor

28. A Corridor-Wide Architecture……
…Goes beyond a regional or statewide instantiation of the national architecture
…Addresses sharing of information…
Between states
Commercial-vehicle info
Hazmat
Emergency coordination
Between shipper nodes and carriers
More Efficient Connectivity
Real-Time System Management Information Program

29. National Corridor Initiatives
West Coast
Corridor
Canamex
Freight Mobility
Tourism
Integrated ATMS Info
I-29/35
Pan-American
Port-to-
Plains

30. ITS Corridor Initiatives
GCM
I-95
Coalition
So Cal
Houston

31. ITS Corridor Initiatives

32. - 10 of the Top 20 Int’l Freight Gateways Are Within 150 miles of the I-10 Corridor of these have direct connections to I-10

33. A Corridor-Wide ITS Vision: Integrated – Transportation Exchange Network (I-TEN)

34. Integrated – Transportation Exchange Network (I-TEN)
Element 1:
Establish corridor-wide communications system capable of providing real- time information for management and operations in the corridor

35. Integrated – Transportation Exchange Network (I-TEN)
Element 2:
Support long range real-time transportation network monitoring needs

36. Integrated – Transportation Exchange Network (I-TEN)
Element 3:
Support inter-jurisdictional architecture needs, e.g. (Center-to-center (C2C) communications

37. The ITS/CVO Architecture is Subset of the National ITS Architecture
Intelligent
Transportation
Systems (ITS)
CVISN
Commercial Vehicle
Information Systems
& Networks (CVISN)
Architecture
Commercial
Vehicle Operations
(CVO)
ITS/CVO I B C
International
Trade
Modernization
Photo Courtesy of Hunter Engineering Company
International Border
Clearance Architecture

38. Integrated – Transportation Exchange Network (I-TEN)
How is this accomplished?
I-TEN Integration Study to Define Architecture and Programs
Define Program Funding Mechanism
Implementation of corridor-wide and strategic program elements

39. I-TEN Integration Study
Purpose:
Establish a corridor-wide architecture and communications infrastructure to enable future technology integration efforts. Establish roles, responsibilities and timelines for future planning and deployment of ITS technologies that can increase transportation security, enhance overall mobility and ease freight congestion.

40. I-TEN Integration Study
Proposed Work Scope
Task 1-
Identify
Strategic
Concepts
Task 2-
Specify
User Needs
And
Vulnerabilities
Task 3-
Develop I-10
ITS Integration
Work Plan
Task 4-
Define I-10
Corridor ITS
Architecture

41. I-TEN Integration Study
Address alternative operational opportunities within Corridor
Recommend and organize stakeholder group – orientation to freight movements
Identify operational and safety problems and opportunities
Identify system needs related to above problems and opportunities
Identify ITS Themes (common functional elements) from above needs
Expand baseline review
Inventory of existing and planned systems
Task 1-
Concept of Operations

42. I-TEN Integration Study
Identify information and service requirements
Interviews with carriers
Interviews with DMV’s/ DOT’s / other stakeholders
Identify Barriers & Opportunities
Identify / Assess Institutional Barriers
Opportunities for integrating public and private data and technology to further the vision
Develop Data, Systems and Technology Requirements
Functional Requirements
Data Flows
Technology Constraints Based on Existing Systems
Task 2-
Identify
User Requirements

43. I-TEN Integration Study
Review, Refine and Prioritize ITS Service Needs and Interoperability Requirements
Integrated communication services
Carrier/Shipper (traveler) information
Traffic management
Corridor-wide security enhancements
Emergency management
CVISN, including Level 2 deployment
International border screening
Task 3-
Develop I-10
ITS Integration
Work Plan

44. I-TEN Integration Study
Review final deployment plan with selected stakeholders
Develop I-10 Sys. Arch., building on existing statewide and regional architectures in corridor
Will use TurboArchitecture tool.
Define potential field tests and corridor projects –scopes / budgets
Define technology & telecomms standards
Integrate business process, data and system architecture requirements and service needs.
Develop business plan/model and deployment schedule
Task 4-
Define I-10
Corridor ITS
Architecture

45. I-TEN Integration Study
Summary
I-10 Corridorwide ITS deployment requires an integrated approach to achieve maximum mobility and economic benefits
I-TEN would provide the framework for implementing corridor-wide and strategic deployment of I-10 Corridor ITS enhancements
Complementary to other I-10 initiatives (e.g., truck lanes / truck tolling, etc.)

46. Thank You