Freight 2055 roundtable discussion agenda Wednesday, July 8, 2015, Arlington, Texas.

Details

• Corporate Creators:
  Texas A&M Transportation Institute ; University of Texas at Austin. Center for Transportation Research
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  Freight service
• Resource Type:
  Memorandum
• Geographical Coverage:
  Texas
• Corporate Publisher:
  Texas A&M Transportation Institute ; University of Texas at Austin. Center for Transportation Research
• Abstract:
  9:00 – 9:30 Arrival and Registration
  
  9:30 – 10:00 Welcome / Introductions / Study and Roundtable Objectives
  
  Michael Morris (North Central Texas Council of Governments)
  
  Caroline Mays (Texas Department of Transportation)
  
  Jolanda Prozzi (Texas A&M Transportation Institute)
  
  10:00 – 12:00 Presentations / Remarks
  
   Major Factors/Trends
  
   Global Trade Patterns (Jeff Warner – Texas A&M Transportation Institute)
  
   Socio-demographic Trends (Mike Cline – Rice University)
  
   Environmental Trends (Megan Kenney - Texas A&M Transportation Institute)
  
   Technology Trends (Rajat Rajbhandari - Texas A&M Transportation Institute)
  
   Industry Perspective (C. Michael Walton – Center for Transportation Research and Arturo Bujanda/Juan Villa – Texas A&M Transportation Institute)
  
  12:00 – 1:00 Lunch*
  
  1:00 – 4:00 Roundtable Discussion
  
   Discuss Factors/Trends
  
   Impact on Texas’s businesses/Where products are sourced and delivered?
  
  o Changes in the origins of freight shipments/where inputs are sourced
  
  o Changes in freight destinations/locations of final demand
  
   Impact on transportation modes/ How businesses move freight?
  
  o Changes in transportation modes used
  
  o Changes in freight volumes/shipment size and freight value
  
   Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT)
  
   TxDOT’s role in 2015 to facilitate the Freight System of 2055
  
   What freight strategies should be adopted?
  
   What opportunities (including critical investments) exist?
  
   What constraints need to be overcome?
  
  4:00 – 4:30 Feedback/Wrap-up
  
  4:30 Adjourn
  
  
• Format:
  PDF
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:085d7f66b5ef538ea24c14a04d528ceccff4d1bf221fe02e8ca5b59af64250d2
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/30780/dot_30780_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 196.94 KB ]