Florida Seaport System Plan - SeaCIP

Florida Seaport System Plan
Table ES.1 Summary of Implementation Plan (continued)
FTP Goal Key Implementation Strategies FDOT Implementation Actions
Make
transportation
decisions to
promote
responsible
environmental
stewardship
(continued).
Provide a safe
and secure
transportation
system for all
users.
Maintain and
operate
Florida’s
transportation
system
proactively.
Improve
mobility and
connectivity for
people and
freight.
• Provide air quality benefits by reducing the reliance of Florida freight shippers, receivers, and
customers on goods trucked to and from out-of-state ports.
• Explore, and implement as feasible, emerging best practices to minimize vessel emissions
(via shoreside electrification and other strategies), to minimize on-terminal operations (via
low-emission equipment), and to minimize truck-related emissions (via advanced gate
systems, off-peak operations where feasible, chassis pools, off-site equipment management,
and use of rail and barge).
• Explore additional regulatory and funding strategies necessary to support Port air quality
efforts, and to identify next-generation transportation logistics strategies that could be used to
improve the movement of goods.
• Encourage seaport investments in green technologies – particularly those that complement
state and national environmental programs and address climate change initiatives.
• Ensure Florida’s seaports are safe; port workers and visitors must be provided a safe
environment that prevents or minimizes unintentional injury.
• Ensure Florida’s seaports are secure; port property, port workers, and host communities must
be protected from intentional harm.
• Promote efficient Federal and state security protocols at Florida seaports to meet security
needs without impeding mobility; this includes elimination of duplicate requirements.
• Ensure Florida’s seaport infrastructure (on- and off-port) is maintained at an adequate level to
support current and future business opportunities and to serve strategic state interests:
- Expand seaport operational capacity through densification, longer work hours
and/or use of technology; and
- Expand seaport capacity through maintenance and construction of new
infrastructure to match individual seaport master plans and niche markets.
• Participate in individual seaport planning activities to promote coordination between seaport
and state investment decisions.
• Consider impacts on the complete supply chain as part of seaport project evaluations to
enhance seaport investment decisions.
• Ensure the seaport system has efficient and reliable access to SIS corridors and hubs to
facilitate competition and provide public benefits.
• Explore and develop marine highway corridors to improve cargo flows to/from and through
Florida.
• Participate in ongoing master and capital planning
activities which include provisions for a safe and
secure seaport.
• Support testing and deployment of technologies to
streamline traffic flow and automate security
clearance activities at main gate complexes.
•
• Implement Florida’s seaport system planning
program through two principal components; FSTED
primarily focuses on on-port infrastructure; other
state seaport investments primarily focus on capacity
improvements and intermodal and connector
infrastructure.
• Prioritize state seaport investments based on clear
strategies and criteria within an established
multimodal transportation system consistent with
established FDOT and partner programs (e.g., SIS
and FSTED).
• Provide regional freight forums as part of modal
system plan updates and other freight mobility
initiatives to support ongoing freight system
enhancements and improvements.
Florida Department of Transportation
December 2010
ES-13