Product No.: 01017
Date Published: 10/2001
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DVRPC conducted a study of important roadway connections between the National Highway System and 12 key intermodal freight terminals to assist the planning needs of the Delaware Valley Goods Movement Task Force. The analytical work includes an inventory and assessment of physical and traffic operating conditions along the connectors (contained in the Appendix). Recommendations to improve deficiencies along the network are also contained in Table 4 in the main report. The candidate improvement program identifies cost estimates and potential funding sources to implement the improvements, and truck trip generation estimates are provided as activity indicators - for establishing priorities.Through the work - 67 individual projects have been identified representing approximately $163 million in improvement needs for the connector network. The scope of the recommendations include conducting additional studies, improving signing, providing auxiliary lanes and/or new traffic signalization at intersections, completing / reconfiguring interchanges and constructing new access roadways. Many of the improvement recommendations are already contained in existing financing programs, while many of the smaller scale projects can be undertaken through existing maintenance programs.
The work was conducted through DVRPC's Intermodal Management System (IMS) Planning Program. The IMS was one of the six management systems created by ISTEA in 1991, and is carried on through the auspices of the region's current long range plan.
Geographic Area Covered: portions of the nine county Philadelphia metropolitan area, specifically: Burlington and Camden counties in New Jersey, and; Bucks, Delaware and Philadelphia counties in Pennsylvania
Key Words: Goods movement, truck travel, highway conditions, traffic improvements, intermodal freight facilities, rail / truck / port / pipeline terminals, airports
Staff Contact(s)
- Michael Ruane (mruane@dvrpc.org)
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