Planning for Urban Freight: Putting it Into Practice

This project applies the results of previous Southeastern Transportation Research, Innovation, Development, and Education Center (STRIDE) research on planning for urban freight by disseminating these results to professional planners and stakeholders, giving them tools to incorporate freight concerns in economic development, transportation, and land use planning. Through a summary infographic, listening session with local North Carolina planners, and listserv email communication, this project shared findings from previous urban freight research. It worked with stakeholders to identify opportunities to apply these findings to on-the-ground challenges. Previous STRIDE research found that freight-related injuries and crashes are rising, particularly on local urban roads and arterials during weekday peak delivery hours. Existing loading zones in urban areas provide insufficient space, leading to substantial parking challenges for delivery drivers and demonstrating the need for policy and infrastructure solutions. The authors found that local North Carolina planners are experiencing many of these same challenges in their own communities, particularly surrounding limited space in compact urban cores, competition for the curb, illegal parking, and warehousing siting and distribution. This project helped to identify strategies for local governments to align planning practice with goods movement trends, and increased information sharing across the region about how these issues are unfolding locally.

• Record URL:
  • https://stride.ce.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/153/2023/12/STRIDE-Project-J6-McDonald-Formatted.pdf
• Record URL:
  • https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/72849
• Supplemental Notes:
  • This document was sponsored by the U.S. Department of Transportation, University Transportation Centers Program.
• Corporate Authors:

  University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

  Chapel Hill, NC  United States  27514

  Southeastern Transportation Research, Innovation, Development and Education Center (STRIDE)

  University of Florida
  365 Weil Hall
  Gainesville, FL  United States  32611

  Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology

  University Transportation Centers Program
  Department of Transportation
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • McDonald, Noreen
  • 0000-0002-4854-7035
  • Edwards, Charles H W
  • Iacobucci, Evan
  • 0000-0001-5813-8895
  • Vinella-Brusher, Emma
  • 0000-0001-6416-6892
• Publication Date: 2023-12-12

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Edition: Final Report
• Features: Appendices; References;
• Pagination: 15p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Curb side parking; Loading and unloading; Transportation planning; Urban goods movement; Warehousing
• Geographic Terms: North Carolina
• Subject Areas: Freight Transportation; Planning and Forecasting;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01903395
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: Project J6
• Contract Numbers: 69A3551747104
• Files: UTC, NTL, TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Dec 27 2023 10:29AM