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41 C H A P T E R 5 Regulations Impacting Urban Goods Movement
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These competing needs to balance cost and air quality may not impact mobility and access; they have been identified as 42 Guidebook for Understanding Urban Goods Movement Exhibit 5-1. Truck unloading in alleyway.
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Regulations Impacting Urban Goods Movement 43 Source: Photo by Wilbur Smith Associates. Exhibit 5-2.
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44 Guidebook for Understanding Urban Goods Movement Source: Wilbur Smith Associates. Exhibit 5-4.
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Manufacturing, warehousing, and distribution businesses were common industries Regulations Impacting Urban Goods Movement 45
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46 Guidebook for Understanding Urban Goods Movement Source: Wikimapia. Exhibit 5-5.
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Many definitions identify trucks as any cargo-carrying commercial vehicle rated at a particular gross weight or higher. Truck Routing Historically, many urban areas in the United States have designated truck routes as a means of keeping trucks out of residential neighborhoods.
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48 Guidebook for Understanding Urban Goods Movement In 2008, the NYCDOT petitioned the FHWA to conduct a truck route signage pilot program that would allow the city to experiment with new truck route sign designs to make signs more identifiable to truck drivers. The first generation of experimental truck route signs incorporated a green circle, the universally accepted symbol for positive guidance, into the existing conventional sign.
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includes the Regulations Impacting Urban Goods Movement 49 Source: www.bollard.info. Exhibit 5-6.
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. NYCDOT is addressing bridge strike problems through enforcement of truck routes, education and outreach, reflective signing of low bridges, and the use of technology to monitor those bridges most prone to strikes.
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has assembled a compendium of truck idling regulations that cites 22 states and more than 50 city and county jurisdictions that impose engine idling restrictions (see http://www.atri-online.org/research/idling/ATRI_Idling_ Compendium.pdf)
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