7.1 Freight Logistics Zones The Hillsborough County MPO and the Polk County TPO jointly created the Freight Logistics Zone Strategic Plan (adopted by the Hillsborough County Board of County Commissioners and the Polk County Board of County Commissioners in October 2017). The purpose of this plan was to identify a freight logistics zone (FLZ) and supporting infrastructure to demonstrably serve a strategic interest in the region and the State. The Hillsborough and Polk counties FLZ is depicted in the map below (Figure 50), but generally stretches in an east/west direction with Tampa International Airport and Port Tampa Bay on the west and the Central Florida Integrated Logistics Center (ILC) anchoring on the east. Port Tampa Bay is the primary generator of freight activity in the FLZ, with over 36 million tons of freight processed annually. Around 85% of that tonnage moved over land is transported by truck, while the remainder is transported by rail. The majority of the more than 9,000 truck movements into and out of the Port are west or east bound.
Figure 50. Hillsborough and Polk freight logistics zones and clusters Source: Hillsborough MPO - Freight Logistics Zone Strategic Plan, 2016
The project study area is a part of the freight logistic zone intersected by I-75 (a SIS limited access facility), US 41 (a regional freight facility), US 301 (a regional freight facility), Big Bend Road (a regional freight facility) and 674 (a regional freight facility) (Figure 51). The ratio of truck traffic to other modes in the study area ranges from 4.1 to 22 percent (Figure 52). I-75 and US 41 have been identified by freight stakeholders to improve goods movement in the region. Proposed improvements identified by the FLZ strategic plan include capacity
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