02/18/2007: "Goods Movement"
resources on this key transportation/economic issue.
The Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG) has created a Goods Movement Knowledge Base. This searchable electronic library contains over 150 goods movement studies going back as far as 1982 and mainly focused on the SCAG region. Search results are returned in reverse chronological order; click on the title of a report to view a summary and access the report file. The database can be accessed by clicking on the link below:
http://www.scag.ca.gov/goodsmove/#reportskbase
SCAG at the May 17, 2007 meeting of its Plans and Programs Technical Advisory Committee reported on Goods Movement Existing Conditions for Southern California.
The Business, Housing & Transportation Agency and the California Environmental Protection Agency have been working on a Goods Movement Action Plan:
http://www.arb.ca.gov/planning/gmerp/gmerp.htm
The California Senate Transportation & Housing Committee has a Sub-Committee on California Ports and Goods Movement that includes a wide variety of resources and information for those interested in this policy area:
http://www.senate.ca.gov/ftp/sen/committee/sub/TRAN_CALIFORNIA/_home1/PROFILE.HTM
Multi-County Goods Movement Action Plan is being undertaken by Southern California transportation agencies (Metro, Orange County Transportation Authority, Riverside County Transportation Commission, San Bernardino Associated Governments, Ventura County Transportation Commission, Caltrans and Southern California Association of Governments):
http://www.metro.net/mcgmap
Report to Riverside County Transportatin Commission on goods movement "bottom line" with text of memorandum of understanding for the Multi-County Goods Movement Action Plan:
http://www.rctc.org/about/pdf/agendas/Commission%20Agenda/SW-RCTC-Fed%20Goods%20Movement%20MOU.pdf
Statement By Elected Representatives of Every Jurisdiction In San Bernardino & Riverside Counties on goods movement:
http://lang.sbsun.com/pdfs/092706_goods.pdf
Southern California Association of Governments page on Goods Movement:
http://www.scag.ca.gov/goodsmove/
The Sierra Club Angeles Chapter (L.A. and Orange counties) has a Harbor Vision Task Force that deals with environmental issues relating to the Los Angeles and Long Beach Ports complex:
http://angeles.sierraclub.org/hvtf/
Coalition For A Safe Environment are activists who work on issues relating to impacts on the local Harbor community of the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach:
http://www.coalitionfase.org/
The Southern California Leadership Council is a business-led-and-sponsored public policy partnership undertaking initiatives and issuing re[ports on goods movement issues:
http://laedc.org/sclc/index.html
Organizations devoted to freight and port issues include go21 and futureports
L.A. Portwatch website has news and other resources on the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach: http://www.laportwatch.com/
A White Paper from the Senate Transportation and Housing Committee gives an overview of the Goods Movement challenges California faces:
http://www.senate.ca.gov/ftp/SEN/COMMITTEE/STANDING/TRANSPORTATION/_home/GOODSMOVEMENTWHITEPAPER5-4-05.doc
In 2003 the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials' issued their report Freight-Rail Bottom Line Report which describes the freight-rail industry, analyzes the industry's benefits to the nation, estimates investment needs and the capacity of the industry to meet these needs, and quantifies the consequences of not investing in freight rail--including the impact on highway congestion and condition:
http://freight.transportation.org/doc/FreightRailReport.pdf
Economist John Husing gave a speech at the November 14, 2005 Mobility 21 Summit on Investing in Goods Movement Infrastructure Will Help Create 1 Million Good Jobs: http://www.metroinvestmentreport.com/mir/?module=displaystory&story_id=315&edition_id=53&format=html
Los Angeles Economic Development Corporation's Wally Baker and environmental legislation expert Leon G. Billings in the February 2006 Metro Investment Report explain the environmental laws that may impact expansion of the goods movement sector:
http://www.metroinvestmentreport.com/mir/?module=displaystory&story_id=331&format=html
Alameda Corridor Transportation Authority CEO John Doherty in the June 2006 Metro Investment Report explains how public and private entities can use the success of the Alameda Corridor as a model:
http://www.metroinvestmentreport.com/mir/?module=displaystory&story_id=359&format=html
The Congressional Budget Office in Jan. 2006 released its analysis of Freight Rail Transportation: Long-Term Issues:
http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/70xx/doc7021/01-17-Rail.pdf
April 26, 2006 the Railroad Subcommittee of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure held a hearing on rail freight congestion:
http://www.house.gov/transportation/rail/04-26-06/04-26-06memo.html
June 21, 2006 the Subcommittee on Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation held a hearing on Economics, Service, and Capacity in the Freight Railroad Industry:
http://commerce.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Hearings.Hearing&Hearing_ID=1772
The California Research Bureau has issued a report entitled "Growing Pains: Airport Expansion and Land Use Compatibility Planning in California" on how the desire to develop land in the vicinity of airports, and the continuous need to make improvements and expand airport capacity, are two opposing forces that shape airport operations and expansion:
http://www.library.ca.gov/crb/06/10/06-010.pdf
The South Bay Goods Cities Council of Govermnments' Goods Movement Study final documents:
http://www.southbaycities.org/node/344