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A Freight Plan for the NYMTC Region<br />
borders to avoid having to stop them. The FHWA and FAA recently participated in an air<br />
cargo test of an electronic manifest imprinted on a smart card along with the truck driver<br />
biometric information so that the load could be electronically cleared upon arrival at the<br />
air cargo terminal at O’Hare Airport in Chicago.<br />
Reaping technology benefits from applications such as ITS for <strong>freight</strong> security also<br />
requires consistent and coherent standards, many of them international. The FHWA’s ITS<br />
program is pursuing intermodal <strong>freight</strong> standards in several areas such as data exchange<br />
and radio frequency identification (RFID) tracking devices such as truck transponders and<br />
container seals. The I-95 Corridor Coalition did a comprehensive scan of Federal and state<br />
security policies, programs, and initiatives for truck trailer and container security.<br />
AASHTO has assembled a committee and published initial guidance for state DOTs on<br />
security for transportation infrastructure.<br />
2.3.6 Conclusion<br />
The problems identified above will worsen as the region continues to grow and prosper if<br />
action is not taken to fix them. Despite the recent recession and the aftermath of<br />
September 11, strong economic growth is still forecast for the region over the next 25<br />
years. An efficient transportation system is essential to achieve this growth, provide economic<br />
opportunity for the region’s residents, encourage businesses to locate and expand<br />
in the region, and to enhance the region’s preeminence in such fields as finance, technology<br />
and the arts.<br />
The actions identified in the roadmap were analyzed for this project by means of limited<br />
quantitative and qualitative methods as described in more detail in Section 3.0 More<br />
extensive analyses are being undertaken by project proponents. Based on the analyses<br />
conducted for this project or those analyses already conducted by project proponents, the<br />
identified actions could be expected to meet the following <strong>plan</strong> objectives:<br />
• Reduced future rate of growth in truck volumes on some roadways;<br />
• Improved traffic operations on some roadways;<br />
• Increased rail mode share in the region;<br />
• Improved environmental quality; and<br />
• A more efficient and cost-effective <strong>freight</strong> delivery system.<br />
It is unrealistic to expect that any single project or set of projects could solve all of the<br />
challenges associated with <strong>regional</strong> <strong>freight</strong> movement and traffic congestion in such a<br />
dense, mature region.<br />
This section of the Plan has provided basic information on <strong>freight</strong> characteristics. It also<br />
has described the challenges the region faces to improve the <strong>freight</strong> system. Section 3.0,<br />
Potential Strategies and How They Were Evaluated, and Section 4.0, Strategies of the<br />
Regional Freight Plan, discuss, explore, and report on the evaluation of potential actions<br />
that could address the issues discussed above.<br />
Cambridge Systematics, Inc. 2-20