Harrington Multimodal Freight Terminal Feasibility Study Harrington, Delaware Dover/Kent County Metropolitan Planning Organization City of Harrington July 16, 2021 DRAFT CONTENTS Executive Summary ....................................................................................................................................... 1 Multimodal Freight Terminal .................................................................................................................... 1 Industrial Park ........................................................................................................................................... 1 Road Access ............................................................................................................................................... 1 Planning-Level Cost ................................................................................................................................... 2 Next Steps ................................................................................................................................................. 2 Introduction .................................................................................................................................................. 4 Purpose of the Study ................................................................................................................................. 4 Site Description ......................................................................................................................................... 4 Purpose and Need Statement ....................................................................................................................... 6 Existing Conditions ........................................................................................................................................ 7 Existing Roadways ..................................................................................................................................... 7 Existing Traffic/Truck Volumes................................................................................................................ 10 Existing Intersection Operations ............................................................................................................. 13 Existing Rail Operations .......................................................................................................................... 15 Multimodal Freight Terminal Potential ...................................................................................................... 17 General Operations of a Transload Freight Terminal ............................................................................. 17 Anticipated Commodity Types and Number of Rail Car Loads ............................................................... 20 Alternatives ................................................................................................................................................. 28 Conceptual Rail Alternatives ................................................................................................................... 28 Vehicle and Truck Access ........................................................................................................................ 29 Utilities .................................................................................................................................................... 30 Stakeholder Input .................................................................................................................................... 30 Preferred Alternative .................................................................................................................................. 31 Future Traffic Operations ............................................................................................................................ 33 Build-Out Industrial Park Trip Generation .............................................................................................. 33 Build-Out Multimodal Freight Terminal Trip Generation ....................................................................... 33 Clukey Drive Access Improvements ........................................................................................................ 34 Future AM and PM Traffic Volumes ........................................................................................................ 38 Anticipated Future Intersection Levels of Service .................................................................................. 41 Potential Access to SR 14 ........................................................................................................................ 41 Implementation Plan .................................................................................................................................. 43 Rail and Terminal Cost ............................................................................................................................ 43 Roadway and Water/Sewer Infrastructure Cost ..................................................................................... 43 Potential Funding Sources ...................................................................................................................... 44 Implementation ...................................................................................................................................... 47 Next Steps ............................................................................................................................................... 49 Appendix ..................................................................................................................................................... 50 HARRINGTON MULTIMODAL FREIGHT TERMINAL FEASIBILITY STUDY | i LIST OF FIGURES Figure 1: Site Location and Zoning ................................................................................................................ 5 Figure 2: Existing AM Peak Hour Traffic Volumes ....................................................................................... 11 Figure 3: Existing PM Peak Hour Traffic Volumes ....................................................................................... 12 Figure 4: Delmarva Central Railroad facilities ............................................................................................. 16 Figure 5: 2040 Freight Production and Consumption Estimates for the Delmarva Peninsula by Commodity Group ................................................................................................................................ 20 Figure 6: 2040 National/Regional Freight Perspectives * ........................................................................... 22 Figure 7: 2040 County Freight Perspectives * ............................................................................................ 23 Figure 8: 2040 Kent County Local Freight Zones * ...................................................................................... 24 Figure 9: Estimated Truck Distribution (based on County-Level Freight Activities) ................................... 26 Figure 10: Estimated Daily Truck Trips (based on Projected Site Operations) ........................................... 27 Figure 11: Examples of Alternative Terminal Concepts .............................................................................. 28 Figure 12: Preferred Alternative ................................................................................................................. 32 Figure 13: Clukey Drive Access Modifications ............................................................................................ 36 Figure 14: Clukey Drive Intersection ........................................................................................................... 37 Figure 15: US 13 Median Modification for Truck U Turn and Acceleration Lane ....................................... 37 Figure 16: 2030 AM Peak Hour Volumes with Terminal and Industrial Park Buildout - single access at Clukey Drive ................................................................................................................ 39 Figure 17: 2030 PM Peak Hour Volumes with Terminal and Industrial Park Buildout - single access at Clukey Drive ................................................................................................................ 40 LIST OF TABLES Table 1: Level of Service Criteria ................................................................................................................. 13 Table 2: 2020 Peak Hour Levels of Service ................................................................................................. 15 Table 3: Trip Generation for 750,000 Square Feet of General Light Industrial .......................................... 33 Table 4: Trip Generation for Multimodal Freight Terminal ........................................................................ 33 Table 5: Trip Generation for Harmill Village ............................................................................................... 38 Table 6: Anticipated Future Intersection Levels of Service......................................................................... 41 HARRINGTON MULTIMODAL FREIGHT TERMINAL FEASIBILITY STUDY | ii EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The City of Harrington desires to promote industrial development and jobs on three separately owned properties totaling