Local Planning for Goods Movement in Ontario

Local Planning for Goods Movement in Ontario A survey of current municipal practices and opportunities Lindsay Wiginton October 2017  Photo: Rachel Brown for the Pembina Institute Local Planning for Goods Movement in Ontario A survey of current municipal practices and opportunities Lindsay Wiginton October 2017 ©2017 The Pembina Foundation agreements with environmental research and All rights rese [...] Trucking is a major cause of congestion, and at the same time, businesses suffer efficiency and economic losses due to delays in the delivery of goods.10 The Toronto Region Board of Trade estimated in 2011 that gridlock costs the Toronto region $6 billion in lost productivity and predicted that this figure would rise to $15 billion by 2031 without action.11 Therefore, in municipalities with major [...] The survey was distributed over the month of July 2017 with the support of the Clean Air Partnership24 and the regional Municipal Services Offices of the Ontario Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Ministry of Housing. [...] The list of municipalities that responded is presented in Appendix 1. The survey questions and the summary results are presented in Appendix 2. Table 2 shows the distribution of respondent municipalities in the Growth Plan policy regions (GGH, Northern) as well as the share of upper-, lower- and single-tier municipalities. [...] Some plans establish a strategic goods movement network (SGMN)26, while many call for the establishment of an SGMN in the 26 A strategic goods movement network is a system of corridors that form the backbone of a transportation system and make up the top of a hierarchy of truck routes.