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A Freight Plan for the NYMTC Region The Administration’s proposal for TEA-21 reauthorization the Safe, Accountable, Flexible and Efficient Transportation Equity Act of 2003 (SAFETEA), and a Congressional initiative called Transportation Equity Act Legacy for Users (TEALU) each contain several proposals that would broaden the Federal government’s ability to participate in freight projects. Other potential strategies include user tolls and surcharges and public/private development partnerships. In order to compete for these potential new funding sources, it is essential that the region coalesce around a set of priority projects. • Organization of Report This report is organized as follows: • Section 1.0 – Project Purpose; • Section 2.0 – Existing and Future Freight Movement in the Region and Identification of Deficiencies; • Section 3.0 – Potential Strategies and How They Were Evaluated; • Section 4.0 – Relationship between Performance Measures, Deficiencies, and Recommendations; • Section 5.0 – Strategies of the Regional Freight Plan; • Section 6.0 – Summary of Regional Impacts; and • Section 7.0 – Financing. The NYMTC Regional Freight Plan has required a great deal of analytical work. This work is presented in a series of technical memoranda that can be viewed on the NYMTC web site, http://www.nymtc.org. Cambridge Systematics, Inc. ES-13
A Freight Plan for the NYMTC Region 1.0 NYMTC’s Freight Plan: A Roadmap to a 21 st Century Freight System The purpose of the New York Metropolitan Transportation Council (NYMTC) Regional Freight Plan Project is to develop a roadmap for improving freight transportation in the NYMTC region. The freight plan presents a wide range of strategies and actions that include capital projects, operational improvements, and policy changes. These strategies are multimodal, including highway, rail, and marine, and can be implemented in the short term (one to three years), mid term (three to 10 years), and long term (more than 10 years). Some of the recommendations in the report call for short-term actions around which a regional consensus already exists. In the case of most of the capital intensive, long-term projects, the recommendations are for the project proponent to proceed with the planning process such as the completion of a Major Investment Study (MIS) or Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) in conjunction with corridor-wide studies. NYMTC has used this freight planning process to reach a consensus on the problems facing the region and on the goals and objectives of a regional freight program. This process also emphasizes the importance of individual agency initiatives, and the need for coordination across these agencies. This is an appropriate function for a metropolitan planning organization (MPO), which typically looks beyond the operational and geographic responsibilities of individual agencies. Many related studies are underway or planned in the NYMTC region. Following is a list of the efforts (and their sponsors) that are discussed in this report: • Truck Route Management and Community Impact Reduction Study, New York City Department of Transportation (NYCDOT); • Port Inland Distribution Network, Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (PANYNJ); • Hudson Line Railroad Corridor Transportation Plan, NYSDOT, Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA), Amtrak, and CSX Railroad; • East-of-Hudson Rail Freight Study, PANYNJ; • Pilgrim Intermodal Terminal Feasibility Study and EIS (pending), NYSDOT; Cambridge Systematics, Inc. 1-1
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