The Calgary Goods Movement Strategy Stage 2 Report: Issues and Prepared for The City of Calgary by: Challenges Watt Consulting Group In association with Approved by Council: December 17, 2018 David Kriger Consultants Inc. and CPCS Transcom Ltd. Contact: Tomasz Kroman Senior Consultant Watt Consulting Group Ltd. 403.569.8721
[email protected] #310, 3016 5 Avenue N.E. Calgary, T2A 6K4 calgary.ca | contact 311 03 Executive Summary This report describes the issues and challenges that are associated with goods movement in and around Calgary. These issues and challenges were identified through an extensive stakeholder engagement, which was conducted as part of The City of Calgary’s Goods Movement Strategy. The findings of this report will be used to explore potential opportunities for addressing the issues and challenges, through a subsequent review of how other jurisdictions address the issues and challenges and through a literature review of best practices. The engagement used several means to gather information from stakeholders in the Calgary goods movement community. These comprised: • Informal one-page surveys that were distributed at the February 2017 project kick-off meetings, which were held at meetings of goods movement and economic development industry associations and other groups. • One-on-one interviews that were conducted with stakeholders. These stakeholders comprised a wide range of perspectives: the provincial and federal governments, infrastructure and facility owners, emergency services, utilities, retailers, distributors, carriers, couriers, aggregates producers and industry associations. • Stakeholder meetings, which were held with four groups: o Operational Advisory Group (OAG), an external body set up to advise the Strategy on short term issues and solutions.