Coordination within a Megaregion for Freight Planning: Stakeholder Outreach

This project builds off the work of Texas Department of Transportation's (TxDOT’s) Texas Connected Freight Corridors (TCFC) project with a goal of distilling lessons learned. TCFC is an effort to pilot safety and congestion management connected vehicle (CV) technologies in the field via collaboration between public agencies and private companies in the Texas Triangle Megaregion. TCFC was designed to be geographically broad because these roadways are key corridors for freight movement which experience a high volume of traffic. The project includes vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) applications which will be enabled using various communication tools. The TCFC project provides a unique opportunity to follow the planning of a CV project which will help to enhance freight mobility within a megaregion. This work captures the key methods which made stakeholder outreach successful along with lessons learned that can be applied to future projects undertaken by other megaregions.

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Completed
• Funding: $12000
• Contract Numbers:

  69A3551747135

• Sponsor Organizations:

  Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology

  University Transportation Centers Program
  Department of Transportation
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Managing Organizations:

  Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology

  University Transportation Centers Program
  Department of Transportation
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Project Managers:

  Stearns, Amy

• Performing Organizations:

  Cooperative Mobility for Competitive Megaregions (CM2)

  University of Texas at Austin
  Austin, TX  United States  78712
• Principal Investigators:

  Walton, C

• Start Date: 20191001
• Expected Completion Date: 20201231
• Actual Completion Date: 20200430
• USDOT Program: University Transportation Centers Program

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Connected vehicles; Coordination; Freight transportation; Lessons learned; Outreach; Regional planning; Stakeholders; Transportation planning; Vehicle to infrastructure communications
• Subject Areas: Freight Transportation; Planning and Forecasting;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01739659
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Cooperative Mobility for Competitive Megaregions (CM2)
• Contract Numbers: 69A3551747135
• Files: UTC, RIP
• Created Date: May 21 2020 4:05AM