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Develop a 2-Stage Process for Evaluating Overweight Truck Corridors Serving Coastal Port Regions and Border Port-of-Entry

Project Summary

A process is needed to evaluate. Designate and manage routine permitted overweight truck corridors Serving coastal ports in Texas. These corridors can potentially enhance the competitive edge of companies importing or exporting freight through Texas ports while creating a self-sustaining system through permit fees. The Research Team recognizes that successful development of this analysis methodology will require close coordination with TxDOT, port authorities, Metropolitan Planning Organizations, Regional Mobility Authorities. Manufacturers and the trucking industry. The methodology will account for current and projected freight flows and opportunities that utilize the full cargo capacities of trucks operating along each corridor. The methodology will provide an economic analysis of candidate corridors that accounts for pavement and bridge infrastructure strengthening and adjustments in geometric features; long term maintenance costs: Right-of-Way, Utility and Environmental clearance timeframes and impacts; sustainability based on projected permit revenue; safety, security, and law enforcement requirements. The methodology will also account for current legal restrictions for certain routes types, which can carry permitted indivisible loads but are restricted from carrying permitted divisible loads. The methodology will be flexible and provide a means for examining each factor and factor weight and their contributions to the final economic assessment of each corridor.

Project Number

0-6820

Status

Completed

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Project Details

Start Date

7/25/2014

End Date

8/31/2016

Performing Institution(s)

Center for Transportation Research (CTR); The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA)

Research Team

RS: C. Mike Walton

Sponsor

Project Manager

Sonya Badgley

Contract Specialist

Annette Trevino

Amount Funded

FY14: $62,791
FY15: $186,175
FY16: $289,030

Notes

variant title: A Process for Designating and Managing Overweight Truck Routes in Coastal Port Regions

Publications from this Project

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Publications Note

No official report deliverables were published. Research Products P1, P2, and P4 were superseded by the Stage 2 Tool (P3) & Manual (P5) prior to publication.

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Functional Area

Planning and Environmental

Lead University

CTR

Researcher

Walton, C. Michael

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4/6/2015

Record Updated:

10/30/2023 11:50 AM EDT

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