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Title: SOUTHWEST SAN ANTONIO (KELLY AFB) MOBILITY STUDY
Accession Number: 00939782
Record Type: Component
Availability: Transportation Research Board Business Office 500 Fifth Street, NW Abstract: Many Air Force bases nationwide, including Kelly AFB in San Antonio, Texas, were selected for either phase-out or privatization. The city of San Antonio created the Greater Kelly Development Corporation (GKDC) to lead the communities' efforts to reuse and re-energize the many resources and develop the Master Plan for Kelly. The GKDC's planning and implementation efforts are aimed at developing a multimodal distribution center. Surface transportation needs to preserve and enhance accessibility to, from and within Kelly are imperative. The Metropolitan Planning Organization, Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT), the City of San Antonio, Bexar County, the GKDC, and other stakeholder representatives comprised an oversite group, the Kelly Transportation Task Force (KTTF), to assess the transportation infrastructure needs outside of the current Kelly AFB boundaries. The challenge of the study focused on a base that originally had restricted base access for security reasons to a free unrestricted movement of goods to the inside of Kelly. The primary goal of the mobility study was to maximize opportunities for commuters and freight to interchange the new Kelly facility without compromising the quality of life in the surrounding neighborhoods, schools and small business. The identified improvements both short and long range, included transportation management policies, pedestrian amenities, widening existing arterials, and construction of new arterials and interchanges. These improvements were identified by area residents, school districts, church representatives, local officials and TxDOT through a series of public meetings. Large intermodal shipping companies are seeking the warehouse space, staging areas and strategic locations at Kelly to increase their global position in the market. Assets such as an all-weather runway capable of landing C-5s, the Union Pacific intermodal rail terminal and a network of external highways around Kelly AFB make the future inland port concept a viable option. The GKDC's continued efforts to lure good companies through privatization of an intermodal site and with the KTTF Study now complete, efforts are underway to implement the identified transportation needs and seek the appropriate funding for the short term and long range projects.
Supplemental Notes: The CD-ROM contains the proceedings of the sixth, seventh and eighth conferences. The seventh conference proceedings were published in September 1999.
Monograph Title: Monograph Accession #: 00939750
Language: English
Corporate Authors: Transportation Research Board 500 Fifth Street, NW Authors: Smith, C REditors: Donnelly, RPagination: p. 389-394
Publication Date: 2002
Conference:
Seventh TRB Conference on the Application of Transportation Planning Methods
Location:
Boston, Massachusetts TRT Terms: Identifier Terms: Uncontrolled Terms: Geographic Terms: Subject Areas: Aviation; Highways; Pavements; Planning and Forecasting; Railroads; Terminals and Facilities; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning
Files: TRIS, TRB
Created Date: Mar 18 2003 12:00AM
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