National Cooperative Freight Research Program (NCFRP) Truck Drayage Productivity Guide: Final Report and Appendices. Report 11

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TRB, National Academy of Sciences, 2010. 105 p.Truck Drayage Productivity Guide Appendices contain the Final Report on development of NCFRP Report 11, its appendices and Presentations Truck Drayage Productivity Guide is designed to help improve drayage productivity and capacity while reducing emissions, costs, and port-area congestion at deepwater ports. The guide includes suggestions designed help shippers, receivers, draymen, marine terminal operators, ocean carriers, and port authorities address inefficiencies, control costs, and reduce associated environmental impacts of truck drayage.The guide identifies and quantifies the impacts of bottlenecks, associated gate processes, exceptions (trouble tickets), chassis logistics, congestion, and disruption at marine container terminals. The impacts are described in terms of hours, costs, and emissions that were estimated using the Environmental Protection Agency’s DrayFLEET model.Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsAbstractExecutive SummaryIntroductionResearch ApproachFindings and Conclusions Summary Recommendations Overview of Marine Drayage Marine Drayage Industry Intermodal Equipment Marine TerminalsResearch Approach OverviewPortsInitial Stakeholder WorkshopsLiterature ReviewField Work and Site VisitsPort Drayage Process Maps Marine Terminal DataGPS/AVL DataMarine Terminal Webcam DataDriver and Drayage Firm Surveys Cost and Emissions ModelingFinal Stakeholder WorkshopsFindings and Applications IntroductionDrayage Turn Times Nature of the Problem – Surges and BuffersGate Queue Frequency and Length Marine Terminal BottlenecksGate Processing Bottlenecks Gate Processing Best Practices APM Portsmouth ExampleDemand Management Marine Terminal Process Exceptions: Trouble TicketsTrouble Ticket Solutions And Best Practices Container Yard (CY) CongestionMarine Terminal Capacity Management: Best PracticesChassis Supply BottlenecksChassis Maintenance BottlenecksChanging Market Structure for Chassis Dry Runs and Extra drayage tripsExtra Trip Solutions Drayage Costs and Emissions Modeling RecommendationsOverviewImporter and exporter RecommendationsMarine terminal RecommendationsMotor carrier RecommendationsOcean carrier RecommendationsPort authority RecommendationsRecommendation for All partiesAppendices (bound separately)Port Selection and Stakeholder MeetingsLiterature ReviewFieldwork and Site VisitsPort Drayage Process and Process MapsWebcam and Geofencing Data CollectionDriver and Drayage Firm SurveysCost and Emissions Modeling