| Improved Staging Areas | |
| Description: This initiative foster the development and/or requirement of on-site off-street areas at businesses or other facilities to conduct loading, unloading, or other freight related activities | |
| Targeted mode: Large traffic generators/ urban deliveries | Geographic scope: Point / area |
| Type of initiative: Parking/loading areas management: off-street parking and loading | Primary objective: Improve inadequate infrastructure |
| Expected costs and level of effort to implement: Changing design standards and building/zoning codes will not be costly. Retroactively updating existing loading areas, however, or constructing larger areas for freight activities at establishments or facilities, will be expensive. Securing the area to establish public staging areas and operating them will be costly. | |
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 Source: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute-CITE |
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| Related alternatives: 1. Vehicle Parking Reservation Systems; 2. Enhanced Building Codes; 3. Truck Stops/Parking Outside of Metropolitan Areas; 4. Time-Slotting of Pick-Ups and Deliveries at Large Traffic Generators | |
| References: NICHES 2006; BESTUFS 2007; Federal Highway Administration 2012b | |
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