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68 A P P E N D I X E Online Survey Questionnaire and Results SURVEY QUESTIONNAIRE WITH EMBEDDED RESULTS You are invited to take part in an online survey conducted by the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) , as part of the NCHRP Synthesis Project 20-05/Topic 49-01 "Prioritization of Freight Investment Projects," funded by the National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP)
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Online Survey Questionnaire and Results 69 We are interested in the experience of agencies in applying freight investment prioritization methods in planning and programming processes, whether statewide or at a district and regional level. A brief synopsis of the research project is available at: http://apps.trb.org/cmsfeed/TRBNetProjectDisplay.asp?
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70 Prioritization of Freight Investment Projects CONTACT INFORMATION NCHRP will e-mail you a link to the online report once it is completed. In case of questions and for NCHRP to send you a link to the final report, please provide your e-mail and telephone contact information.
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Online Survey Questionnaire and Results 71 • Operations • Maintenance • Administration • Other 2. Are the following statements true or false of your organization?
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72 Prioritization of Freight Investment Projects • We are reliant on [an] external (to our agency)
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Online Survey Questionnaire and Results 73 Figure E-1. Organizational self-assessment for freight project prioritization.
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74 Prioritization of Freight Investment Projects 3. Considering your agency's goals, please rank the topic areas in importance (with 1 being highest and 7 being lowest)
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Online Survey Questionnaire and Results 75 Figure E-2. Ranking agency goals (1–7)
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76 Prioritization of Freight Investment Projects 4. How important are the following methods in your agency's freight project prioritization process?
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Online Survey Questionnaire and Results 77 • Data-driven current and future freight deficiency analysis (e.g., stakeholder needs assessment coupled with current and future freight network demand projections)
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78 Prioritization of Freight Investment Projects Many participants gave the highest marks for critical importance of method to "performance measures analysis" (62%) , "project readiness scores" (62%)
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Online Survey Questionnaire and Results 79 5. How important are the following factors in applying freight project prioritization methods in your agency?
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80 Prioritization of Freight Investment Projects Multimodal coordination (e.g., assigning benefits/costs for each project to multiple user groups, modes, and levels of government in a b/c matrix)
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Online Survey Questionnaire and Results 81 • Don't know (for all the above)
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82 Prioritization of Freight Investment Projects 6. Are freight project prioritization methods applied differently based on the source and mix of project funding?
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Online Survey Questionnaire and Results 83 Table E-1. Select comments on application of source and mix of funding to freight project prioritization processes.
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84 Prioritization of Freight Investment Projects State Private sector Other (i.e., local authority, long-term lease, concession, public–private partnership [PPP]
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Online Survey Questionnaire and Results 85 ownership of these asset categories. Local authorities, PPPs, and long-term lease concessions predominantly own 83% of airports and 74% of seaports.
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86 Prioritization of Freight Investment Projects Yes No Don't know For the question of whether state DOTs apply a multimodal framework to freight project prioritization and selection, responses were split between 53% for those who do and 45% for those who do not (Figure E-6)
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Online Survey Questionnaire and Results 87 9. What type of method or processes are used to prioritize freight projects in comparison to other modes?
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88 Prioritization of Freight Investment Projects Figure E-7. Application of freight project prioritization methods across multiple modes.
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Online Survey Questionnaire and Results 89 Advisory Committee, and individual project-level benefit–cost or demand analysis. Idaho Transportation Department We incorporate employment gain and business attraction/retention.
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90 Prioritization of Freight Investment Projects mobility. Tennessee DOT Both data analysis and input from industry advisory committee is for large scale highway modernization, which often improves freight used.
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Online Survey Questionnaire and Results 91 priority over freight. No formal modal prioritization is used.
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92 Prioritization of Freight Investment Projects framework (13%. In this case, 13% is a count of 5 out of 40, rounding up from 12.5% for broader multimodal project sel importance of data was the topic of applying the data to a broader multimodal project selection ection framework; in the case of transportation and environment 39 respondents were counted, and 5 indicated that they somewhat disagreed, or 12.8%, rounding up to 13%)
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Online Survey Questionnaire and Results 93 No participation in state and regional freight prioritization processes Don't Meeting participation know • MPOs • Freight rail • Port authorities • Aviation and airport authorities • Intermodal freight facilities and inland ports • Logistics companies • Private sector distribution centers and warehousing • RPOs and county or municipal governments not part of the MPO • Communities/impacted neighborhoods • Other Survey respondents indicated that an average of 77% of stakeholder agencies listed were involved in meeting participation activities as part of the freight project prioritization processes (Figure E-9)
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94 Prioritization of Freight Investment Projects intermodal freight facilities and inland ports (22%)
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Online Survey Questionnaire and Results 95 12. Does your agency currently collect the following types of data in support of freight project prioritization?
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96 Prioritization of Freight Investment Projects • Finance (data on expenditures, revenue, asset values, capital outlays)
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Online Survey Questionnaire and Results 97 When considering freight project prioritization processes specifically and use of data types by federal, state, local, and private data sources, the greatest use of federal data was in the field of commodities (63%) , capacity (53%)
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98 Prioritization of Freight Investment Projects 13. Does your agency currently collect the following types of data in support of freight performance measures?
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Online Survey Questionnaire and Results 99 • Finance (data on expenditures, revenue, asset values, capital outlays)
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100 Prioritization of Freight Investment Projects of state data in freight performance measures from the safety (81%) , environment (80%)
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Online Survey Questionnaire and Results 101 Table E-4. State DOT freight performance measures.
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102 Prioritization of Freight Investment Projects PM 3.2 -- freight mobility -- TTTR. Pavement/bridge conditions.
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Online Survey Questionnaire and Results 103 Interstate TTR: truck reliability index. Tennessee DOT TTTR index.
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104 Prioritization of Freight Investment Projects On-time performance. On-budget performance.
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Online Survey Questionnaire and Results 105 Air Cargo: Federal -- U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Air Carrier Statistics database.
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106 Prioritization of Freight Investment Projects Private -- Private Sector-Maintained Regional Employment Data (e.g., National Establishment Time Series)
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Online Survey Questionnaire and Results 107 Source: Texas A&M Transportation Institute.
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108 Prioritization of Freight Investment Projects o Lack of clear performance measures and associated goals, and objectives. o Disagreement or lack of clarity over applicable freight performance measures.
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Online Survey Questionnaire and Results 109 o Fragmented project database with relevant history on benefit, cost, and performance measures across all project types and stakeholders. o Lack of access to necessary skill sets with freight and supply chain logistics experience to improve prioritization methods.
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110 Prioritization of Freight Investment Projects making authority within the department and organization (41%)
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Online Survey Questionnaire and Results 111 17. What are the opportunities in your state that freight prioritization will help to achieve?
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112 Prioritization of Freight Investment Projects Source: Texas A&M Transportation Institute.
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Online Survey Questionnaire and Results 113 Fifty percent of survey respondents indicated that freight priorities are sometimes reflected in their capital programs (Figure E-16)
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