ARC releases freight mobility study
February 27, 2008 at 5:08 pm by Thomas Wheatley in NewsThis one goes out to all the wonks in the audience.
The Atlanta Regional Commission released its 2008 Freight Mobility Report this afternoon, all 122 whopping pages of it. Lots of interesting aspects to it, including:
- The region is one of the top five logistics hubs in the country — pretty notable judging that we’re landlocked. Atlanta, Dallas and Chicago are the three largest inland distribution centers in the country.
- Lots of tractor trailer operators rarely — or don’t — use the heralded Georgia Navigator system.
- The bottlenecks you’d expect freight operators to gripe about — Spaghetti Junction, Peachtree Road, etc. — are terrible for moving goods and are getting worse. Oh, and Howell Mill Road sucks for truck drivers.
- Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport ranked 10th in the nation and 25th in the world for annual tonnage moved in 2005.
- Heads up, Metro Chamber: “It was noted during stakeholder interviews that shippers are starting to look outside the Atlanta metro region for distribution facilities due to congested conditions. As they do so, Atlanta will retain its competitiveness relative to other areas (such as Macon, Valdosta, Chattanooga and Charlotte) because the region’s advantages outweigh its disadvantages.”
Check it out here. Really thorough report. The ARC board voted today to adopt the recommendations of the report, which include increasing driver education, double-track the rail corridors between Atlanta and Chattanooga and Savannah and Memphis, and eliminate or reduce at-grade crossings at bottlenecks, among others. Lots of suggested infrastructure fixes listed in there, too.
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