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Estimated truck trips for large warehouses
1:19:13
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Commissioner Aggarwala and Dawn Miller discuss the estimated number of truck trips generated by large warehouses in New York City. They also mention an ongoing study in Red Hook to gather more specific data on last mile facilities.
- An estimate of 18,000 truck trips per large facility is mentioned
- A comprehensive study of last mile facilities is underway in Red Hook
- The study aims to understand the nature of truck volume generated by last mile facilities specifically in NYC
- There's a theory that NYC warehouses are used more intensively than in other parts of the country due to land costs
Alexa Avilés
1:19:13
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1:19:13
Is there an estimation of the number of trucks that are visiting and moving in and out of some of the identified last mile and e commerce warehouses?
Rohit Aggarwala
1:19:24
I'll just say I believe what we what we had in the testimony was an estimate of 18,000 truck trips per one of these large facilities.
1:19:35
So 500 times 18,000, what's that, 9,000,000?
Dawn Miller
1:19:39
And I know you're aware, just for benefit of the whole group, there is a more comprehensive study of last mile facilities going on in Red Hook where they're looking at that very question of the nature of the truck volume generated by last mile facilities.
1:20:01
Because a lot of the numbers that we have and that the commissioner shared are based on more national figures.
1:20:06
And so we're trying to get information about first, the special category that's last mile, but also what does it look like in New York City, where our theory is that many of our warehouses are used more intensively than they might be in other parts of the country because of the cost of our land and the value of pumping more goods through our warehouses.
Alexa Avilés
1:20:25
Yeah.
1:20:25
Thank you.
1:20:25
And, you know, to council member Holden's point, I think one of my great frustrations has been that these facilities have all been cited on the waterfront and none contemplated nor did the city provide any incentive or forward thinking about the use of actual the water, rather 100% built for encouraging truck traffic as mode of transportation for the goods and services.
1:20:53
So so, you know, the this rule is is so important in getting us to understand also the real volume because what we are seeing is a well, several years ago, we saw the proliferation of the building of these massive facilities and everyone saying, well, we we're not sure how many cars and trucks are gonna be there.
1:21:15
And they were all being built to the same specs of a last mile distribution facility, and we could see that it was coming.
1:21:23
So I'm just really heartened that we're gonna we're looking at offering a tool that is gonna be able to scale up and scale down accordingly.
1:21:34
You mentioned a suggestion of being able to catch a broader universe of warehouses.
1:21:40
Can you talk to me a little bit more about what distinguishes that broader universe from the, I think, 60 you said to maybe the potentially 500?
1:21:51
What distinguishes in that universe?