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Title:

Simplified Scenario Planning Workshop to Evaluate, Rank, and Select Regional Freight Strategies
Cover of Simplified Scenario Planning Workshop to Evaluate, Rank, and Select Regional Freight Strategies

Accession Number:

01591826

Record Type:

Component

Abstract:

The Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada, the metropolitan planning organization in the greater Las Vegas area, recently completed a Regional Goods Movement Corridor Master Plan ‒ which outlines a series of freight strategies ‒ with the intent to drive investment decisions that can improve and enhance regional mobility, and thereby, the economic competitiveness of Southern Nevada. A key component to the success and consensus gained through this planning process was a half-day freight scenario planning workshop. U sing the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Center for Transportation and Logistics NCHRP 20- 83-(01) Future Freight Flows Workshop Planning Guide, the workshop sought to prioritize freight strategies that can be implemented today to prepare for differing future economic scenarios. The objective was not to predict future events, but rather prepare for potential effects. By reviewing a range of differing future events, the group agreed on a set of solutions that were shared among the three futures, allowing the region to prepare for any number of actual future outcomes. The scenario planning process described in the Future Freight Flows Workshop Planning Guide, and accompanying presentations, handouts, and videos were simplified and customized to the Las Vegas metropolitan area, and proved to be an extremely effective method for prioritizing regional freight strategies. The process and materials kept the discussion very focused on results, but also allowed for divergent opinions and new ideas. As a public participation and outreach tool, this planning process reinvigorated project engagement in a fun, educational, and highly productive manner.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee AT025 Standing Committee on Urban Freight Transportation.

Monograph Accession #:

01584066

Report/Paper Numbers:

16-6509

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Xie, Beth
Andersen, Dan

Pagination:

17p

Publication Date:

2016

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 95th Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2016-1-10 to 2016-1-14
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

Figures; Photos; References; Tables

Geographic Terms:

Las Vegas (Nevada)

Subject Areas:

Freight Transportation; Planning and Forecasting; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2016 Paper #16-6509

Files:

PRP, TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Jan 12 2016 6:52PM