Metro - File #: 2020-0240

• File #: 2020-0240
• Type: Informational Report
• Status: Agenda Ready
• File created: 3/19/2020
• In control: Planning and Programming Committee
• On agenda: 6/17/2020
• Title: RECEIVE AND FILE the Draft Los Angeles County Goods Movement Strategic Plan.
• Sponsors: Planning and Programming Committee
• Indexes: Air quality, Budgeting, Cleaning, Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), Equity Focus Communities, Informational Report, Logistics, Metro Equity Platform, Multi County Goods Movement Action Plan, Multimodal, Multimodal transportation, Partnerships, Plan, Port of Long Beach, Port of Los Angeles, Program, Public health, Quality of life, Rail transit, San Pedro, South Bay Cities subregion, South Bay Service Sector, Strategic planning, Trucking, Volume

Meeting_Body
PLANNING AND PROGRAMMING COMMITTEE
JUNE 17, 2020

Subject
SUBJECT: PRESENTATION OF DRAFT LOS ANGELES COUNTY GOODS MOVEMENT STRATEGIC PLAN

Action
ACTION: RECEIVE AND FILE

Heading
RECOMMENDATION

Title
RECEIVE AND FILE the Draft Los Angeles County Goods Movement Strategic Plan.

Issue
ISSUE

Metro staff is developing the Los Angeles County Goods Movement Strategic Plan (Plan) in partnership with a wide range of regional goods movement stakeholders at the public, private and community level. The Plan reflects insights and priorities elicited from these stakeholders and supports Metro Board positions and planning efforts, particularly the Equity Platform and Vision 2028.

The Plan presents the Vision, Sustainable Freight Competitiveness Framework and Early Action Initiatives that were developed through ongoing stakeholder engagement over the past 18 months, along with an implementation strategy for these items.

Staff requests input from the Board for the draft Plan. Upon Board action to Receive & File the Draft Plan, staff will initiate a formal public comment period that will take place through July 2020. Input gathered from the Board and the public comment period will be incorporated into the final Plan, which will be presented to the Board in October 2020.

Background
BACKGROUND

Successful societies across the history of civilization share similar hallmarks - in particular, their economic competitiveness and quality of life depend greatly on a strong transportation system that allows for the efficient movement and delivery of goods.
Unsurprisingly, the rise of Los Angeles County as a regional, national, and international economic, industrial, and manufacturing powerhouse traces its genesis directly to the development of its regional, multimodal freight system. The arrival of the Santa Fe Railroad in 1885, the founding of the Port of Los Angeles in 1907 and the Port of Long Beach in 1911, and the post-war development of the r...