 |
 |
**This message is being sent to the Freight Planning LISTSERV. If you have already registered for this seminar, please disregard. **
Registration is still available for the November 18th Talking Freight Seminar.
Topic: International Urban Freight Conference Presentation – Warehouse Locations and Community Impacts
Date: November 18, 2015 1:00 – 2:30 ET
Registration: http://www.ops.fhwa.dot.gov/freight/fpd/talking_freight/index.htm
Description: Warehousing and distribution facilities serve a wide variety of industries and can be located in a wide variety of locations. However, warehouse design and transportation network needs can be quite different depending
on where they are built and how large a geographic area they serve. In at least some regions around the U.S. and the world, an increasing number of warehouses and distribution centers are built in suburban areas rather than more built up city locations to
allow them to serve entire metropolitan areas or even multiple metropolitan areas. Additionally, warehouses and distribution facilities can create community impacts where they are located. In some cases, these impacts may disproportionately impact environmental
justice (EJ) communities, both in positive way by providing easier access to jobs and in a negative way by exposing EJ communities to greater air pollution, noise, freight-related congestion and other undesirable environmental and transportation conditions.
One of the leading centers for urban freight transportation research, the METRANS Transportation Center in southern California, sponsors an every-other year international conference focused on presenting research in the urban freight transportation
field. This webinar will include three presentations given at the 2015 International Urban Freight (I-NUF) Conference. The three presentations will focus on warehouse and distribution center location patterns, both in urban vs. suburban terms and relative
to environmental justice community location terms.
“The Dualism of Urban Freight Distribution: City vs. Suburban Logistics”
This presentation will discuss the different warehouse and distribution center needs for city or urban-based facilities compared to suburban-based facilities.
SPEAKER:
“Unraveling Decentralization of Warehousing and Distribution Centers”
This presentation will examine whether the perceived decentralization of warehousing and distribution center facilities is in fact occurring by studying warehouse location patterns in four large metropolitan areas.
SPEAKER:
“Location of Warehouses and Environmental Justice”
This presentation will discuss the spatial pattern of warehouse and distribution center facilities relative to various socioeconomic and environmental justice populations in the greater Los Angeles area.
SPEAKER:
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 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].
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].
Nicole Coene | Leidos
Task Manager | Transportation Solutions and Technology Applications Division
phone: 703.318.4267
[log in to unmask]
| leidos.com
[log in to unmask]">