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**This message is being sent to the Freight Planning LISTSERV. If you have already registered for this seminar please disregard.** Registration is now available for the May 20th Talking Freight Seminar. Topic: Improving Freight System Performance in Metropolitan Areas Date/Time: May 20, 2015 1:00 - 2:30 pm EST Registration: http://www.ops.fhwa.dot.gov/freight/fpd/talking_freight/index.htm Description: Freight transportation movements in metropolitan areas, particularly urban or downtown settings, has become a major topic of research in recent years. Due to the production and especially demand needs of many businesses, a significant volume of freight movements occur throughout metropolitan areas. These movements provide many benefits, primarily in the forms of supporting businesses through freight pickups and deliveries, and through providing numerous jobs. However, freight movements also create many challenges in the same areas, primarily in the forms of traffic conflicts with other motor vehicles, bicyclists, pedestrians, and other transportation system users, and through increased tailpipe emissions that negatively impact air quality. Finding ways to promote freight transportation's benefits while minimizing its negative impacts is a challenge in all metropolitan areas, and made more difficult by the fact many different attributes impacting freight transportation movements, such as roadway infrastructure, vehicle operations, business pickup and delivery time windows, and zoning regulations, are controlled by different public agencies and/or private businesses. To improve freight system performance in metropolitan areas, all the different stakeholders that influence freight transportation movement trends need to be engaged in the comprehensive planning and assessment process. This webinar will discuss different approaches to improving freight movements in urban areas, particularly focusing on the findings of NCFRP Report 33: Improving Freight System Performance in Metropolitan Areas. Topics and Presenters: Improving Freight System Performance in Metropolitan Areas - Summary of NCFRP Report 33 This presentation will provide an overview of the findings the recently-published NCFRP Report 33, Improving Freight System Performance in Metropolitan Areas. SPEAKER: * Jose Holguin-Veras, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) Improving Freight System Performance in Metropolitan Areas - Vehicle and Traffic Demand-Related Approaches This presentation will highlight the vehicle and traffic demand-related approaches to improving freight system performance identified in NCFRP Report 33, such as parking or loading areas management, vehicle initiatives, and traffic management. SPEAKER: * Jeff Wojtowicz, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) Improving Freight System Performance in Metropolitan Areas - Supply Chain and Non-Transportation Approaches This presentation will highlight the supply chain and non-transportation related approaches to improving freight system performance identified in NCFRP Report 33, such as logistical management, pricing, incentives, taxation, time-based demand management, and land use management. SPEAKER: * Jose Holguin-Veras, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) Improving Freight System Performance in Metropolitan Areas - Infrastructure Management Approaches and Stakeholder Engagement This presentation will highlight the infrastructure management-related approaches to improving freight system performance identified in NCFRP Report 33, as well as stakeholder engagement case studies illustrating all of the approaches. SPEAKER: * Dan Haake, CDM Smith If you have not yet participated in Talking Freight, I encourage you to do so. These monthly seminars, sponsored by the Federal Highway Administration, are held via web conference, which means that you view the PowerPoint presentations over the Internet while listening to the presenters over your computer or the telephone. There is no cost involved and you do not have to leave your desk to participate. More information about Talking Freight is available at http://www.ops.fhwa.dot.gov/freight/fpd/talking_freight/index.htm Links to past presentations and recordings are available on http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/freightplanning/talking.htm. Talking Freight seminars are eligible for 1.5 AICP Certification Maintenance Credits (for AICP members). In order to receive credit, you must attend the full seminar and login to the seminar with your full name or type your full name into the chat area during the seminar if you are in a room with a group of people. Visit the AICP web site<http://wwwcf.fhwa.dot.gov/exit.cfm?link=http://www.planning.org/cm/> for more information about AICP Certification Maintenance Credits. If you have any questions about the webinar content, please contact Chip Millard, FHWA Freight Office, at 202-366-4415 or [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>. If you have any questions about the technology aspects of the webinar, please contact Nicole Coene, Leidos, at 703-318-4267 or [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>.