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Kari Beasley
Good afternoon or good morning to those of you to the West. Welcome to the Talking Freight Seminar Series. My name is Kari Beasley and I will moderate today's seminar. Today's topic is Engaging the Private Sector.
Before I go any further, I do want to let those of you who are calling into the teleconference for the audio know that you need to mute your computer speakers or else you will be hearing your audio over the computer as well.
Today we'll have four presenters - Suzann Rhodes from Wilbur Smith Associates, Nicole Katsikides from the Maryland Department of Transportation, Karen Schmidt from the Freight Mobility Strategic Investment Board, and Liz DeRuchie from the New Jersey Transportation Planning Authority.
Suzann S. Rhodes, AICP is a Principal and senior project manager with Wilbur Smith Associates, a wholly owned subsidiary of CDM. Suzann possesses over 35 years of experience in transportation and project management. Prior to joining WSA/CDM, she served as Ohio DOT's Central Office Planning Administrator, and as the Executive Director of BHJ a multi-state MPO and a LLD for Appalachian Regional Commission. While at ODOT she helped develop and authored a number of planning documents including the first ODOT statewide freight plan
Nicole Katsikides is the Director of the Office of Freight and Multimodalism for the Maryland DOT. She oversees freight policy and planning along with High Speed Rail program efforts for MDOT. Nicole's background includes freight and logistics management for the US Air Force; economic development, planning and infrastructure development for the States of Georgia and Maryland, as well as transportation policy initiatives.
Karen Schmidt became the Executive Director of the Freight Mobility Strategic Investment Board in November 1999. She was selected as the first Director to create and manage the Freight Mobility program as an independent state agency. Prior to her selection as Director, Karen served 19 years as a State Representative primarily focusing on transportation issues. She was Chairman of the House Transportation Policy & Budget Committee for 5 years, and Chairman of the Legislative Transportation Committee for 4 years.
Liz DeRuchie is a Principal Planner at the New Jersey Transportation Planning Authority. Four years ago she joined the Systems Planning Division of the NJTPA and currently works on the Air Quality Conformity and the Transportation Clean Air Measures (TCAM) initiative. USDOT has recognized the TCAM effort as a national model of success for the innovative partnerships and projects that have been implemented with demonstrative air quality benefits.
Today's seminar will last 90 minutes, with 60 minutes allocated for the speakers, and the final 30 minutes for audience Question and Answer. If during the presentations you think of a question, you can type it into the chat area. Please make sure you send your question to "Everyone" and indicate which presenter your question is for. Presenters will be unable to answer your questions during their presentations, but I will start off the question and answer session with the questions typed into the chat box. If we run out of time and are unable to address all questions we will attempt to get written responses from the presenters to the unanswered questions.
The PowerPoint presentations used during the seminar are available for download from the file download box in the lower right corner of your screen. The presentations will also be available online within the next few weeks, along with a recording and a transcript. I will notify all attendees once these materials are posted online.
One final note: Talking Freight seminars are eligible for 1.5 certification maintenance credits for AICP members. In order to obtain credit for today's seminar, you must have logged in with your first and last name or if you are attending with a group of people you must type your first and last name into the chat box. I have included more detailed instructions in the file share box on how to obtain your credits after the seminar. Please note that today's seminar is not yet available on the AICP web site. I will send out an email to everyone who registered once it is available for credits. Please also download the evaluation form from the file share box and submit this form to me after you have filled it out.
We're now going to go ahead and get started. Today's topic, for those of you who just joined us, is Freight and Livability. As a reminder, if you have questions during the presentation please type them into the chat box and they will be answered in the last 30 minutes of the seminar. Our first presenter will be Suzann Rhodes from Wilbur Smith Associates. Suzann, you may begin.
Suzann Rhodes
I was asked by FHWA to do provide a short overview and introduction to the topic based on some tools that we helped prepare for FHWA's Office of Freight Management and Operations under the Freight Development Program. The tools they have created, and what I will be speaking about, are a guidebook for engaging the private sector and freight transportation planning. There is a one-day workshop available through FHWA. At the end of my presentation I will have links to the internet on where you can download this guidebook, and how you can schedule a workshop.
These were built on the NHI course of integrating freight into the transportation planning process and it is sort of the next step. I believe that course is still available online for a nominal fee. I have not checked lately, but I believe it is about $50. What we will cover today and what is covered in a guidebook in considerably more detail is why engage the private sector, who and why to engage and what to expect. Before I begin, I want to make an overarching statement. Engaging the private sector is basically public involvement. I have a little guy in the bottom corner here with his mouth zipped and two ears. Those of you who do public involvement frequently understand it's not just about informing people and it's not just about you talking to stakeholders area certainly that is part of it, but it's also about listening and that is why he has two big ears. It's about hearing what the stakeholders have a say. It should be an early and continuing process as we all know who do a lot of work in public involvement.
If you recall a few years back when environmental justice sort of became a big hot topic and people focused on how you engage a handicapped community for example, people had to think a little bit more about how you would do this and what are the special needs and how would you engage them more actively. The same thing is true of engaging the private sector. The same principles and the same approaches, you just need to think about what would work better. You all have in your toolbox the tools to do this. Judging from the list of attendees and looking down the names, I know many of you and you understand why you would engage the private sector in your planning process.
You understand there is a link between freight and the economy. A lot of people say that freight is economy in motion and if you look at each of the trucks on the right-hand side, not only is there a person with a job driving, but it's full products that will go to the market and people will sell them in a store or use them in a manufacturing process. There is a definite link between the economy and freight and from what I hear when working with the governments around the country, everyone is talking about jobs and how do you get more jobs. Improving the quality of life of people is about getting the products to market more efficiently and keeping the cost down so everybody can benefit. If you go into the grocery store, the milk and bread is there when you need it.
Certainly trucks have a different role and relationship to capacity and congestion on the road and you need to understand that and work with the motor carrier community. Most important, freight is your customer too. The freight community is a customer of every state DOT and MPO and local government. What can they offer you? Certainly, they can offer an understanding of their perspective. What is important to a truck moving down the road may be a little different and what is important to a soccer mom getting to the child's game.
Reliability and predictability of the traffic, as you all know I'm not saying anything that most on this webinar does not know, but for example if you are a MPO area and you're looking at the downtown area, there may be some parking issues which you do not understand. You are designing a roundabout, it's important to talk to the motor carrier community because they don't have the same geometric and turning radius that you do or that another car might. Also the freight community can provide access to data and plans. A lot of people had trouble using data sources because current data sources don't get down to the specific neighborhood or MPO area. You may find that information talking with the freight community. Finally, last but not least, the Federal regulations for statewide and MPO planning 23CFR450, required that you involve and consider freight in the planning process.
As a starting point to engaging the private sector, and, as with any kind of public outreach effort that you would have, you need to identify and set your goals and objectives before you begin. You need to understand what you want to get out of it: are you working on a project plan, are you looking at how you would improve an interchange or an intersection; etc. Your goals and purposes will guide the question that you ask. You don't want to waste people's time asking a lot of questions or having focus groups that the information out of it cannot be used. It is sort of common sense; this is the same kind of approach we take to any kind of public involvement process. You need to identify your stakeholder targets and identified some techniques. The workbook in the workshop and the guidebook give you a lot of ideas in detail on these.
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