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Registration is available for the August 19th Talking Freight Seminar. Topic: Supply Chain Needs and Industrial Site Selection Decisions Date/Time: August 19, 2015 1:00 - 2:30 pm EST Registration: http://www.ops.fhwa.dot.gov/freight/fpd/talking_freight/index.htm Description: Manufacturers, retailers, and other companies that ship goods rely heavily on an efficient and reliable freight transportation system to optimize their supply chains and minimize their costs. Transportation system efficiency is critical in maximizing supply chain efficiency. However, some factors that impact supply chain efficiency do not directly relate to transportation but can impact the transportation network. One such factor is the siting of freight-generating facilities. These facilities, particularly industrial facilities such as distribution centers, often have a wide range of transportation-related needs, such as proximity to major highways, railroad lines, water ports, or airports, and easy site access for tractor-trailers, that can create challenges for both communities and government transportation agencies if the freight-generating development needs are not fully understood. Additionally, industrial, commercial, and other types of development are also important for economic development purposes, and economic development considerations such as jobs and tax base also play a role in site selection decisions, and indirectly influence the transportation impacts of freight-generating land development. Though site selection is primarily a land use consideration, those business location decisions are significantly influenced by transportation and economic development considerations, which themselves are directly related to business supply chain needs. This webinar will discuss the supply chain needs of industrial and other freight-generating developments from the industrial and commercial land development, economic development, and transportation perspectives. Topics and Presenters: Supply Chain and Site Location Needs - Industrial Real Estate Developer Perspective This presentation will discuss how industrial real estate developers and site selection consultants examine freight-generating business location needs to find the preferred locations for development. SPEAKERS: * Curtis Spencer (President) and Steve Schellenberg, IMS Worldwide Supply Chain and Site Location Needs - Economic Development and Freight Transportation Facility Perspective This presentation will discuss how major freight facilities work with manufacturing, retail, and other industrial companies to attract complementary industrial and commercial development to areas near their facilities and work to promote economic development within their regions. SPEAKER: * Russell Held, Virginia Port Authority, Vice-President of Economic Development Supply Chain and Site Location Needs - Freight Company Transportation Optimization Perspective This presentation will discuss how freight manufacturers and retailers work to maximize the efficiency of their supply chains by examining transportation network flows and ensuring their facilities are ideally located. SPEAKER: * Richard Langer, Quetica LLC, Managing Director 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]>. Nicole Coene | Leidos Task Manager | Transportation Solutions and Technology Applications Division phone: 703.318.4267 [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> | leidos.com [cid:[log in to unmask]]