TRB Webinar: Truck Drayage Productivity Guide

TRB conducted a web briefing or "webinar" on November 17, 2011 that addressed the findings of TRB’s National Cooperative Freight Research Program (NCFRP) Report 11: Truck Drayage Productivity Guide. Contact Reggie Gillum at RGillum@nas.edu to request a recording of the webinar.

Truck drayage is an integral part of the intermodal freight transportation system. The most visible drayage sector is at seaports, where dray drivers spend a considerable amount of time waiting to enter marine terminals and then operate in non-productive ways while inside the terminal gate. This leads to increased truck idling, resulting in air pollution and congestion on the roads leading into terminals.

NCFRP Report 11: Truck Drayage Productivity Guide presents a compendium of metrics designed to give port authorities, marine terminal operators, drayage firms, and regional transportation planners the tools to improve drayage productivity and capacity while reducing emissions, costs, and port-area congestion at deepwater ports throughout the United States.

This webinar will explore the contents of the guide. Attendees will learn how to identify and quantify the impacts of bottlenecks, associated gate processes, exceptions (trouble tickets), chassis logistics, congestion, and disruption at marine container terminals. The impacts are described in terms of hours, costs, and emissions that were estimated using the Environmental Protection Agency’s DrayFLEET model. Panelists will also highlight the accompanying CD-ROM containing the contractor’s final report and appendices (unedited by TRB), which includes a set of measures that industry stakeholders (i.e., shippers, receivers, draymen, marine terminal operators, ocean carriers, and port authorities) can consider to address inefficiencies, control costs, and reduce associated environmental impacts of truck drayage.

Learning Objectives: At the conclusion of this webinar, attendees will be able to recognize port drayage problems, identify potential causes, obtain and analyze necessary data, and develop implementable solutions.

Webinar Outline:

1. Defining the port drayage problem
2. Identifying port drayage bottlenecks
3. Obtaining  data on port drayage
4. Quantifying  drayage delays
5. Determining causes of bottlenecks and delays
6. Emissions and cost impacts
7. Developing solutions

Presenters:

• Dan Smith, The Tioga Group, Inc.
• Frank Harder, The Tioga Group, Inc.

Moderated by William Rogers, Transportation Research Board

Request the recorded webinar: There is no fee for employees of TRB sponsors who request a webinar recording. In addition to employees of TRB sponsor organizations, the following are eligible to receive a complimentary webinar recording:

• TRB and National Academies employees;
• Chairs of TRB standing committees, sections, or groups;
• CRP panel members who were involved with developing the report or project that is the subject of the webinar;
• Members of the media; and
• Congressional staff members.

Others must pay $39 to receive the recording. View our pricing page for details.

Questions? Contact Reggie Gillum at RGillum@nas.edu.