Freight movement, port facilities, and economic competitiveness.

Details

• Creators:
  Ross, Catherine L. ; Lee, David Jung-Hwi
• Corporate Creators:
  Georgia Tech Research Corporation
• Corporate Contributors:
  United States. Federal Highway Administration
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  Competition Economic Impacts Freight Traffic Global Positioning System Highways Ports Shipping Traffic Congestion Truck Traffic
• Publication/ Report Number:
  FHWA-GA-15-1222
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  Georgia
• Corporate Publisher:
  Georgia. Department of Transportation. Office of Research
• Abstract:
  This research report examines how the Panama Canal expansion will affect freight at three ports, truck movement
  
  between the ports and inland economic hubs and the economic impacts accompanying the shift in cargo shipping
  
  patterns. Economic impacts stemming from the Panama Canal expansion are examined with three primary research
  
  objectives: to profile the relationship between the Panama Canal and port activities along the East and Gulf Coasts
  
  and explore the nature of inland freight movement; to examine the implications for highway infrastructure resulting
  
  from a change in freight movement; and to model different scenarios of the Panama Canal expansions’ impact on
  
  local economic activity.
  
  The analysis begins by examining 14 east and Gulf Coast ports having a combined cargo volume of over one
  
  quarter million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU). The research contains a deeper analysis of the relationship
  
  between highway network conditions, port activity and local and regional economies utilizing large seasonal truck
  
  GPS samples for three selected ports: the Garden City Terminal at the Port of Savannah, the Norfolk International
  
  Terminals in at the Port of Virginia, and the Napoleon Avenue Container Terminal at the Port of New Orleans. GPS
  
  truck data showed that congestion around the Port of New Orleans is limiting truck range compared with Savannah
  
  or Norfolk. While the Savannah area is not severely congested, main truck routes encounter congestion around
  
  major cities and highway interchanges in Georgia, and by 2040 congestion is expected to affect urban and rural
  
  interstates in South and North Carolina
  
  
• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  11746
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:127ffd86a05a04dd64b97c0c249ff11f54bd81b6b514a6902d3bce99b6de4418
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/29716/dot_29716_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 20.43 MB ]