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Interstate 10 Western Connected Freight Corridor, Volume 1: Improvement Strategies Ǧ͹ͷʹ ʹͲͳͻ ͳͲ ǡͳǣ Interstate 10 Western Connected Freight Corridor, Volume 1: Improvement Strategies FHWA Transportation Pooled Fund 5-348 SPR-752 May 2019 Prepared by: Allan Rutter, Rafael Aldrete, Dan Middleton, Curtis Morgan, Kevin Balke, Beverly Kuhn, Ed Seymour, and Roberto Macias Texas A&M Transportation Institute Texas A&M University System 3135 TAMU College Station, Texas 77843-3135 and Mark Jensen and Daniel Stock Cambridge Systematics 2715 Southview Avenue Arroyo Grande, California 93420 Published by: Arizona Department of Transportation 206 South 17th Avenue Phoenix, Arizona 85007 In cooperation with US Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration This report was funded in part from the Federal Highway Administration, US Department of Transportation. The contents of this report reflect the views of the authors, who are responsible for the facts and the accuracy of the data, and for the use or adaptation of previously published material, presented herein. The contents do not necessarily reflect the official views or policies of the Arizona, California, New Mexico, and Texas Departments of Transportation or the Federal Highway Administration, US Department of Transportation. This report does not constitute a standard, specification, or regulation. Trade or manufacturers’ names that may appear herein are cited only because they are considered essential to the objectives of the report. The US government and the States of Arizona, California, New Mexico, and Texas do not endorse products or manufacturers. This report is subject to the provisions of 23 USC § 409. Any intentional or inadvertent release of this material, or any data derived from its use, does not constitute a waiver of privilege pursuant to 23 USC § 409, which reads as follows: 23 USC § 409 — Discovery and admission as evidence of certain reports and surveys Notwithstanding any other provision of law, reports, surveys, schedules, lists, or data compiled or collected for the purpose of identifying, evaluating, or planning the safety enhancement of potential accident sites, hazardous roadway conditions, or railway-highway crossings, pursuant to sections 130, 144, and 148 of this title or for the purpose of developing any highway safety construction improvement project which may be implemented utilizing Federal-aid highway funds shall not be subject to discovery or admitted into evidence in a Federal or State court proceeding or considered for other purposes in any action for damages arising from any occurrence at a location mentioned or addressed in such reports, surveys, schedules, lists, or data. ii Technical Report Documentation Page 1. Report No. 2. Government Accession No. 3. Recipient's Catalog No. FHWA-AZ-19-752 4. Title and Subtitle 5. Report Date May 2019 Interstate 10 Western Connected Freight Corridor, Volume 1: Improvement 6. Performing Organization Code Strategies 7. Author 8. Performing Organization Report No. Allan Rutter, Rafael Aldrete, Dan Middleton, Curtis Morgan, Kevin Balke, Beverly Kuhn, Ed Seymour, Roberto Macias, Mark Jensen, and Daniel Stock 9. Performing Organization Name and Address 10. Work Unit No. Texas A&M Transportation Institute Texas A&M University System 3135 TAMU College Station, TX 77843-3135 11. Contract or Grant No. SPR 000-(186) 752 12. Sponsoring Agency Name and Address 13.Type of Report & Period Covered Arizona Department Of Transportation FINAL 206 S. 17th Ave. Phoenix, AZ 85007 14. Sponsoring Agency Code 15. Supplementary Notes Prepared in cooperation with the US Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration 16. Abstract The Interstate 10 (I-10) western connected freight corridor extends from the Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles in California to the Port of Beaumont in Texas. Collaborating through a Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) pooled fund study, the state departments of transportation in California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas (the I-10 Corridor Coalition) produced improvement strategies supporting development of a planning framework for a connected freight corridor. This publication documents five strategies to improve freight movement on the I-10 Corridor: truck parking availability systems, freight traveler information systems, freight technology enviroment, roadside safety communication, and oversize/overweight permit standardization. Included are functional descriptions of the corridor, stakeholders informed about this study, a synthesis of freight improvement technologies and strategies considered for application, stakeholder engagement, use case scenarios and implementation considerations, and a planning framework for strategy implementation. 17. Key Words 18. Distribution Statement 23. Registrant's Seal I-10 Corridor, freight, truck parking, technology, Document is available to the standardization, freight planning, connected US public through the vehicle, GIS, strategies, stakeholder engagement National Technical Information Service, Springfield, Virginia 22161 19. Security Classification 20. Security Classification 21. No. of Pages 22. Price Unclassified Unclassified 197 iii SI* (MODERN METRIC) CONVERSION FACTORS APPROXIMATE CONVERSIONS TO SI UNITS Symbol When You Know Multiply By To Find Symbol LENGTH in inches 25.4 millimeters mm ft feet 0.305 meters m yd yards 0.914 meters m mi miles 1.61 kilometers km AREA in2 square inches 645.2 square millimeters mm2 2 2 ft square feet 0.093 square meters m yd2 square yard 0.836 square meters m2 ac acres 0.405 hectares ha mi2 square miles 2.59 square kilometers km2 VOLUME fl oz fluid ounces 29.57 milliliters mL gal gallons 3.785 liters L ft3 cubic feet 0.028 cubic meters m3 yd3 cubic yards 0.765 cubic meters m3 NOTE: volumes greater than 1000 L shall be shown in m3 MASS oz ounces 28.35 grams g lb pounds 0.454 kilograms kg T short tons (2000 lb) 0.907 megagrams (or "metric ton") Mg (or "t") TEMPERATURE (exact degrees) oF Fahrenheit 5 (F-32)/9 Celsius oC or (F-32)/1.8 ILLUMINATION fc foot-candles 10.76 lux lx fl foot-Lamberts 3.426 candela/m2 cd/m2 FORCE and PRESSURE or STRESS lbf poundforce 4.45 newtons N lbf/in2 poundforce per square inch 6.89 kilopascals kPa APPROXIMATE CONVERSIONS FROM SI UNITS Symbol When You Know Multiply By To Find Symbol LENGTH mm millimeters 0.039 inches in m meters 3.28 feet ft m meters 1.09 yards yd km kilometers 0.621 miles mi AREA 2 2 mm square millimeters 0.0016 square inches in m2 square meters 10.764 square feet ft2 m2 square meters 1.195 square yards yd2 ha hectares 2.47 acres ac km2 square kilometers 0.386 square miles mi2 VOLUME mL milliliters 0.034 fluid ounces fl oz L liters 0.264 gallons gal m3 cubic meters 35.314 cubic feet ft3 m3 cubic meters 1.307 cubic yards yd3 MASS g grams 0.035 ounces oz kg kilograms 2.202 pounds lb Mg (or "t") megagrams (or "metric ton") 1.103 short tons (2000 lb) T TEMPERATURE (exact degrees) oC Celsius 1.8C+32 Fahrenheit oF ILLUMINATION lx lux 0.0929 foot-candles fc cd/m2 candela/m2 0.2919 foot-Lamberts fl FORCE and PRESSURE or STRESS N newtons 0.225 poundforce lbf kPa kilopascals 0.145 poundforce per square inch lbf/in2 *SI is the symbol for the International System of Units. Appropriate rounding should be made to comply with Section 4 of ASTM E380. (Revised March 2003) iv CONTENTS Chapter 1. Introduction ......................................................................................................................1 Research Need ...................................................................................................................................1 Research Context.................................................................................................................................... 1 Research Execution ................................................................................................................................ 4 Project Process and Methodology ......................................................................................................4 Chapter 2. Interstate 10 Today ...........................................................................................................7 Corridor Inventory .............................................................................................................................7 Freight Corridor Inventory ...................................................................................................................... 7 Corridor Inventory Analysis .................................................................................................................. 10 Corridor Asset and Data Gap Analysis .................................................................................................. 34 Freight Corridor Stakeholders .............................................................................................................. 35 Information Search and Synthesis .................................................................................................... 35 Smart Roadside Initiative ................................................................................................................. 36 Introduction .......................................................................................................................................... 36 Electronic Screening ............................................................................................................................. 36 Virtual Weigh Stations .........................................................................................................................
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