RECORD OF MEETING

FREIGHT TASK FORCE

DATE/TIME/PLACE: Monday, November 21, 1994; 2 PM; Conrail Offices, Selkirk

ATTENDANCE: Chuck Samul (Conrail), Tom Magliocca (Albany Port), John Newman, Dick Corp (NYSTA), John Lemmerman (NYSDOT Commercial Transport), Ted Thompson (NYSDOT Region One), Gus Lapham (AAA), Larry Bascom (Quandt's Wholesale Distributors), Chungchin Chen (CDRPC), Kristina Younger (CDTC), Steve Allocco (CDTC)

DISCUSSION SUMMARY: Record of October meeting unchanged. Agenda altered to remove supplemental measures report (not yet available), defer vision statement discussion, and defer strategies and projects discussion.

Status Reports: Intermodal Commission report distributed to interested people. Two conferences on goods movement announced and copies of remarks Kristina is scheduled to present in New Orleans on December 7 were distributed. Survey results have been distributed to all respondents. Results from sharing the results with the Infrastructure and Expressway Management task forces were shared.

Steve Allocco distributed a handout on the current status of the development of Intelligent Transportation System Architecture development.

Core Performance Measures that Directly Pertain to Freight: Memo included in packet was supplemented by handouts from Steve Allocco on the effects of recurring and non-recurring delay on regional highway system performance, their implications for goods movement, and the potential for intelligent transportation systems to mitigate these effects.

Task force discussion included the following points:

* The notion of "fixing the system" was discarded as too simplistic. Wording such as "continuously improve the system" or "remove identified infrastructure barriers to goods movement" were suggested alternatives.

* Perception that trucks %'s decrease during the peak was confirmed by task force member experience. Additional data was provided by the NYS Thruway Authority for Exit 24 that will be analyzed to further confirm NYSDOT Northway counts.

* Confirmed previously policy direction of public sector preservation of options and removal of barriers.

* There is no good way to estimate the daily value of non-truck freight area. You get into both issues of proprietary information and extreme variability. CDTC should simply note that the figures reflect estimates of truck travel only, and note why the other modes are not included.

* NYSDOT standards values of time are acceptable to use.

* Region-wide impacts of a single incident can be significant. Documentation of the value of this disruption to truckers shows real money lost to congestion.

Furthermore, ongoing information exchange between the Expressway Management and Goods Movement task forces is desirable. In particular, the expressway folks would like to be invited to the industry roundtable in February.

ACTION ITEMS:

* NEXT MEETING: Monday, January 9, 1995, 2 - 4:30 PM, NYS Thruway Authority Offices. Agenda to include: supplemental performance measures and objectives write - up, vision statement, industry roundtable planning.

* Industry forum/roundtable to be held in January/February. Further discussion of logistics needed.