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Miami-Dade County’s Freight SystemConnected Places: Freight Movement and Megaregions

TPCB Peer Exchange on Transportation Planning and Freight Movement by Metropolitan Planning Organizations for Megaregions

November 2013

Carlos Roa

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Outline

Background of Miami-Dade County

Mega-Region Status

Motivation Driving Growth

Regionalism in South Florida

Overview of Miami-Dade’s Freight and Logistics System

Questions?

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At the National Level, Florida Represents an Emerging Mega Region – Led by South Florida

Many of the freight transportation investments underway and planned will serve Florida’s mega region, the Southeast, and beyond

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At the State Level, a Strategic Intermodal System was Designated in 2003

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Regional Level - Network of Regionally Significant Facilities

Southeast Florida’s regionally significant network includes:

Key highway corridors

3 Deep water seaports

Class I and II railroads

3 International airports

Coastal and inland waterways

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MOTIVATION: South Florida is Investing to be a Global Logistics Hub (Serving Multiple Mega Regions)

South Florida is America’s gateway to Latin America for North/South trade

Miami to become a Global City

Trade and logistics has been called out by state and regional leaders as a top priority to drive economic growth and emergence as a global logistics hub

Trade and Investments underway will position theregion to also serve as a hub for East/ West trade » Miami International is the #1 international cargo airport

» PortMiami and Port Everglades are the #15 and #13 container seaports in the U.S.

– PortMiami (underway) and Port Everglades (planned) will both deepen to 50 feet

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South Florida’s Regional Efforts

Tri-Rail (South Florida’s commuter rail system) was created as a mitigation strategy for expansion of I-95 in the late 1980s

SunGuide (South Florida’s regional ITS/Traffic Management Center) was created in the mid 1990s

2000 Census defined the Miami Urbanized Area as Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach counties

Southeast Florida Transportation Council (SEFTC) was created in 2005 to serve as a formal forum for policy coordination and communication to carry out regional initiatives

After a decade of ongoing regional freight planning efforts, the first Southeast Florida Regional Freight Plan was developed in 2010

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Miami-Dade County has Actively Engaged in Freight Planning Since the Mid 1990s

Miami-Dade MPO developed its first Freight Plan in 1996 – the first in the state

Other studies: port access, truck parking, truck management techniques, key freight corridors

Miami-Dade has partnered with Broward and Palm Beach MPOs to develop a comprehensive Regional Freight Program

Miami’s Freight Transportation Advisory Committee formed in 2002.

This work complements Florida’s Freight Mobility and Trade Plan under development, as well as the Seven-50 HUD Grant project underway in South Florida

Florida Freight Mobility and Trade Plan under development

Florida Chamber Foundation completed Trade & Logistics 2.0 Study

Miami-Dade County Freight Plan Update underway

FDOT District 6 initiating multiple freight planning studies

Miami-Dade MPO and FDOT District 6 partnering on truck parking facility development

Southeast Florida Regional Freight Plan Update underway

Miami Chamber hosted Florida Logistics and Trade Conference

Beacon Council identified Trade & Logistics as a target industry

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In Closing:

If we are to believe that “Geography is destiny”, as Napoleon said, then South Florida may be destined to become the center of the Americas.

QUESTIONS?