Linking Goods Movement to Economic Prosperity and Environmental Quality

1. Linking Goods Movement to Economic Prosperity and Environmental QualityThe Transportation – Land Use – Environment Connection

2. Linking Goods Movement to Economic Prosperity and Environmental QualityThe Transportation – Land Use – Environment Connection Brian Taylor Symposium Co-Chair

3. Why Goods Movement? • Tends to receive less attention than people movement from policymakers and planners • Perhaps because of the very large private sector role

4. Why Goods Movement? • Tends to receive less attention than people movement from policymakers and planners • Perhaps because of the very large private sector role • Freight has been increasing faster than any other form of traffic on transportation systems • The effects on these systems, traffic congestion, and emissions are significant and growing

5. Why Goods Movement? • Tends to receive less attention than people movement from policymakers and planners • Perhaps because of the very large private sector role • Freight has been increasing faster than any other form of traffic on transportation systems • The effects on transportation systems, traffic congestion, and emissions are significant and growing • The links between goods movement and land use in particular have been understudied • Yet freight traffic and goods movement facilities increasingly affect people and activities near air and seaports, along rail lines and highways, and inland warehouse and transfer centers

6. This Symposium • Three days • Nine sessions • Nineteen presentations • Eighteen commentaries • Hundreds of insights and ideas

7. Sunday Afternoon • What economic forces have fuelled the dramatic rise in freight traffic in recent years? • How are these trends expected to change in the years ahead? • How are issues like traffic congestion, free trade, air quality, labor relations, terrorism affecting goods movement policy and planning?

8. Sunday Afternoon • Linking Goods Movement to Economic Prosperity and Environmental Quality • How are changes in production, trade, consumption, and congestion affecting the movement of goods?(Randolph Hall, USC) • International trade traffic: Current trends and policy concerns(Jon Haverman, PPIC) • Free trade, organized labor, increased security, environmental protection, and more: The emerging freight policy context(Harry Caldwell, Regal Decision Systems)

9. Sunday Afternoon • What are the principal issues and challenges facing each of the major freight modes in the years ahead? • What have been the private and public sector roles and responses to these issues and challenges? Can they be expected to change in the future? • What are the barriers to and opportunities for increased modal cooperation and integration?

10. Sunday Afternoon • Modal Perspectives on a Multi-Modal Issue: Issues and Policy Challenges Moderator: Richard Nordahl, Caltrans • Air cargo(Keola Pang-Ching, Alaska Airlines) • Maritime trade (John Vickerman, TranSystems Corporation) • Rail freight (Pete Swan, Penn State University) • Trucking (Kristen Monaco, CSU Long Beach)

11. Sunday Evening • What are (and what should be) the public and private sector roles in goods movement? • What problems and issues arise in this complex system of shared responsibility? • What steps can be taken to improve coordination and cooperation in both facilitating goods movement, and mitigating its impacts?

12. Sunday Evening • Increasing Public-Private Cooperation and Coordination in Managing the Movement of Goods Moderator: Jeff Brown, California Senate Office of Research • LaDonna DiCamillo, BNSF Railway • Gary Gallegos, San Diego Association of Governments • Ron Guss, Intermodal West • Keola Pang-Ching, Alaska Airlines • Richard Powers, Gateway Cities Council of Governments

13. Monday Morning • What important environmental issues – in addition to emissions – are raised by the dramatic growth in freight traffic? • What land use conflicts arise from air/seaport expansions and new inland warehouse and transfer centers? • What transportation conflicts arise across modes between the movement of goods and people? • What are some examples of successful efforts to address these issues and conflicts here in California?

14. Monday Morning • Land Use and Environmental Issues Moderator: Donald Shoup, UCLA • Resolving local land use conflicts with expanding ports and terminals (Ralph Appy, Port of Los Angeles) • Moving goods in rural and rapidly urbanizing areas: The case of California’s Central Valley (Elizabeth Deakin, UC Berkeley) • Coping with evolving freight logistics and the rise of inland warehouse and transfer facilities (Norm King, San Bernadino Associated Governments)

15. Monday Morning • How do different communities disproportionately enjoy the benefits and/or bear the costs of increasing freight traffic? • How can we systematically analyze the question of who wins and loses when goods are moved from one place to another? • What analytical, economic, legal, regulatory, and political tools can we use to increase equity and build consensus among stakeholders?

16. Monday Morning • Global Trade, Local Impacts: Who Benefits? Who Pays? Moderator: Martin Wachs, UC Berkeley • A Research-Based Framework for Understanding Distributional Issues in Goods Movement (Lisa Schweitzer, Virginia Tech University) • Commentaries • Robert Garcia, Center for Law in the Public Interest • Andrea Hricko, University of Southern California • Angelo Logan, East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice • Jim McGrath, Port of Oakland

17. Monday Afternoon • What are the current trends in goods movement-related emissions, and how are these trends expected to change in the future? • What is the latest on efforts to develop newer, cleaner engines to move freight traffic? • What new regulatory initiatives – in Washington and in Sacramento – are on the horizon?

18. Monday Afternoon • Air Quality and Energy Issues Moderator: Elizabeth Deakin, UC Berkeley • Trucks, trains, ships, and planes: An update on goods movement-related emissions(David Souten, ENVIRON International Corporation) • Alternative propulsion technologies: What’s on the horizon?(CJ Brodrick, James Madison University) • Regulating emissions in the goods movement sector: Reports from Washington and Sacramento(Kenneth Adler, US EPA and Michael Scheible, California ARB) • Commentaries • Tim Carmichael, Coalition for Clean Air • Michael Moore, National Renewable Energy Laboratory

19. Monday Evening • Who is (and who should be) in charge of planning, regulating, and managing goods movements? • How does the competition between private sector actors, and between cities and regions affect efforts to better coordinate goods movement planning? • How can private shippers, international trade bodies, federal and state environment and transportation agencies, regional and local governments and authorities, and others collaborate more effectively to move goods and mitigate their impacts? • What are some examples successful efforts to increase both public/private and inter-governmental coordination in goods movement planning?

20. Monday Evening • Who’s in Charge? Overcoming Governance Challenges to Planning, Regulating, and Managing Goods Movement Moderator: Joan Sollenberger, Caltrans • Ronald Loverage, City of Riverside; South Coast Air Quality Management District • Alan Lowenthal, California Assembly • Richard Nordahl, Caltrans • Mark Pisano, Southern California Association of Governments

21. Tuesday Morning • How do we pay for the facilities and networks expected to move ever increasing volumes of goods with increased reliability and speed? • How can changes to the way we price the use of goods movement facilities increase economic efficiency, equity, and environmental quality? • What new approaches to paying for goods movement facilities are on the horizon? • Where are new approaches to pricing and financing the movement of goods being tested, and what have we learned from these tests?

22. Tuesday Morning • The Going Rate: Public Finance of Goods Movement Moderator: Brian Taylor, UCLA • Whose impacts? Whose revenues? New approaches to financing freight infrastructure to move the economy, protect the environment, and ensure equity(Michael Huerta, ACS State and Local Solutions) • New developments in the use of advanced technologies to price the movement of goods in Europe and elsewhere(Werner Rothengatter, University of Karlsruhe, Germany) • Closing the gap: New directions in highway finance to pay for growing lists of unfunded goods movement projects(Robert Poole, Reason Foundation)

23. Tuesday Morning • Closing Panel– New Solutions and New Directions Three policy leaders – from the private sector, transportation in the public sector, and environmental regulation in the public sector – offer their syntheses of the many ideas and suggestions for linking goods movement to economic prosperity and environmental quality discussed during the symposium, and offer suggestions for the next steps needed in the years ahead Moderator: LeRoy Graymer, UCLA • Gill Hicks, Gill V. Hicks and Associates • Roger Snoble, Los Angeles MTA • Mary Nichols, UCLA

24. Linking Goods Movement to Economic Prosperity and Environmental Quality • Randolph Hall, USC • How are changes in production, trade, consumption, and congestion affecting the movement of goods? Questions? Comments?