Welcome. This is Randy Butler. We just started. So we are right now, if you are not into the webcast. We are on the introduction and the agenda excuse me. The project presentations, I would like to ask the presenters to stay within the 10 minute time frame so we can close out at 2:30. We won't have a whole lot of time for questions today. But the next webcast will be focused on questions to the presenters. I will turn it over to Ben, our industry chair and then Tony. Thanks, Randy. Just want to welcome the group here today. We certainly thank you for your time and effort and thanks to the persons who will be presenting new projects today, I know it is a lot of time and work and we do appreciate your interest in the IFTWG and your assistance here. Looking back over the last year, we have made very good progress. We have a couple of projects that are moving right along now and today we are looking for additional ideas and projects and we will continue this type of of webcast and how we will try to identify additional projects and continue moving along the ones that we have in place. So, again, I want to welcome everybody and I will turn it back over to Randy or Tony. All right. Thank you, Ben. I suppose I can say all the things Ben just said and paraphrase it in a different way but I will save everybody the effort of doing that. I want to thank everybody. I am pleased with the progress we have made and the projects coming forward and with that, land did I. Launch us into the IFTWG update. Okay. Thanks, Tony. Now joining. I will wait for this next-- We came away from the San Antonio meeting with close to six or seven projects and we had went through a process this past year in getting those projects down to two projects that IFTWG members thought was valid in going forward. Cross town and terminal optimization and we made quite a lot of progress moving forward with those two projects. The cross town improvement project we had a kickoff to start the business process mapping on July #. The KCSrailroad in Kansas City hosted that and we had all four major railroads in Kansas City, U.P.S. and N S and we also have participants from three trucking companies. Greer trucking, mid city and I T S and along with participating from TSA our transportation security administration and booze Allen Hamilton is the contractor doing the as is process mapping. We are to start that with on site visits in September. And I have a slide following this to show what the schedule is going to be. We are planning to move forward into the two B technology scenarios and the forum planned the first of October. The cost benefit analysis which basically compares the technologies that maybe selected for the project will be completed by mid October and this will be driven off the data that is collected in the as is business process mapping. Finally we will do a final presentation and workshop at the conference in November and this is where we will final lies it--finalize it to support the cross town improvement project. This is a quick overview of the schedule we are starting the work with the interview guide next week. We will move to interviews in the week of August 22nd. And then the cost drivers September the sixth and then a focus group around the first of October. Finally, like I said. November 11th, 12th, in that area will be facilitating a meeting that would finalize. A terminal optimizations we are moving forward with that. We have a planned meeting at September 14th at the railroad, and inspect Chicago and thanks forgetting us set up and also for participating. I don't know if we have anyone from B S and L. They couldn't make it today. They were tied up. The participants would be U P. Federal Highway, booze Allen. And productivity apex. And same type of process will do the as is and follow up with the workshop in Anaheim on the two B technology scenarios. We don't have a schedule roughed out. It will be after the meeting in Chicago on the 14th. Okay. I am going to step back a little bit and I am going to first introduce our first presentation will be Paul. I am going to promote you here to a panelist. The only promotion I have had in a long time. Don't let it go to your head. Any money with that, Paul? I am guessing no. Take it away. Hopefully everyone sees slide number 1. The port access improvement demonstrations and the name was a cheesy way to get the acronym in there that says paid and you will see why that, why we think that's an important thing to keep in mind. I am looking for the move forward. How do you move forward, Randy. I am sorry. It looks different on the interface today. Here we go. This project. Is extension of some work that our company is already doing in the Baltimore area. And it is specifically tailored on addressing what we see is the need for truckers to use port facilities. Particularly facilities that are adjacent to metropolitan areas and we under through the challengers moving freight in and out of the facilities. Given that there is other nonfreight traffic getting in the way and the reality is that most traveller information types of applications that are currently in existence today are in, have two distinct differences from what we are proposing. They tend not to be focused on the trade industry and two, we are convinced none of them are going to have the quality and richness of data that we will make available through. And we mentioned Baltimore now. You can use cell phones as traffic probes. The basically what we are suggesting are the primary causes of the problem are undetected congestion. In other words, there are things happening on the network that unfortunately the trucking community doesn't have easy access to. The only access they have to anything other than specifically broadcast over the regular traffic reports. Is what ever they might have in terms of what information they may gather over the C B radio network and possibly from dispatchers. And the reality of that means there are things that are getting in the way of those folks improving their operation and maximizing their profits by getting possibly getting the given time period, and in the end, hopefully promoting them getting additional revenue and reducing operating costs. The idea would be to reduce congestion of trucks would also improve the air quality situation particularly around the larger metropolitan areas. The proposed solution is to develop traffic monitoring and information distribution solution that relies on not only the cell phone probe information that is coming in but the means by which or is integrating the information and making it available for redistribution through a system called multithank multi modal travelling information system. And this is focusing on poor truckers and dispatchers. There are three basic things that need to take place and the first would be to expand existing coverage area. We have most of Baltimore covered. And to cover the port to a level of detail that is necessary. We have to expand existing coverage. That is a relatively painless step to take. And reformulate information sets. And develop applications for delivering that back out to those members of the community through, we suggest, cell phones, two way pagers, fleet and the web. And we depend on those because they are the least expensive means for a poor trucker to get the information. We are sensitive to the fact that there is poor trucking community that doesn't have a great deal of money to spend on technology. This is focused on inexpensive delivery of information in packaged sets. Specifically tailored to meet the needs of poor trucking community it I. The expected partners obviously poor truckers and dispatchers that we draw from the folks on behind who do that kind of work, some of the travel information developers out there, they are good at putting applications together for inexpensive flsm flvments. And I Platforms and they are enthusiastically supportive and want to participate. They have already begun talking to representatives from the Maryland motor truck association and they are equally encouraged about seeing something done to meet the needs of the poor trucking community and the local, state and federal government as appropriate. Anticipated benefits. I know I touched on these already. I won't go through all of them. But it comes to providing information to make better decisions. That is not only for the truckers themselves but for the dispatch dispatchers and we think would benefit from having good information about current and predicted conditions on the network. In and around the port area. In the end that is what it comes down to so they can run efficient operations and reduce the costs and hopefully make more money. For the port facilities, there are intrinsic benefits. Identifying time and emissions that send the figures out of the acceptable range in some metropolitan areas. If we can use a tube like this to stake slack out of the system. Whether it is on roadways to or from, that the environmental quality should also improve. If that improves. Then everybody benefits and citizens and government extract the benefits you see here. Better balance and improve safety, reduce the emissions and higher quality of life. From a viability announce men standpoint, there are some challenges here. Everyone knows how diverse the port trucking community is and getting the folks signed up to tell whether they are making a difference. It is going to be a challenge. We already started talking to Maryland motor truck association and they have indicated an interest to help make this thing move and it is always a challenge to understand what information is useful. There are all kind of things to send someone but if they can't make a decision based on what you are sending. It is not all that useful. It has to be useful that actions can be taken against. We already got statements of support and I know Randy and Tony are familiar with this. I presented the information to them as well. There seems to be support for it and there is, if you look at the viability study there. Second bullet. We talked about recognized need. The underlying collection technology is, I say it is proven. What I mean is that if it is up and run non-GAAP Baltimore. They are being provided data about what is going object in and around the city beltway and this is a relatively painless extension of to address what we think is a real need and the challenge of course, and what we are seeking to have the project do for that community is to help define what the real needs are for information to see what kind of applications can be pulled together and finally finally, what happens with the result of having information. Whether it provides financial or safety or emissions air quality improve means. Basically summarizes what the project is and we have interest in Baltimore ready on this thing and it has solid local support. That's it. Okay. Thank you, Paul. I would like to ask the attendees to please hold their questions. If we have a few minutes at the end. We will let you ask presenters questions. I want to move question to Ron Schaeffer, Ron, Ben? Which one is going to present. Let me give credit where credit is due on this. Ron is the one who did the work on this and and this idea came from a brain storming session at our company and our IT department here and Ron is the one that in his group that came up with the subject matter and did all the work. So, Ron will take it over from here. Okay. Ron, let me get on the system here. All right. All right. I am going to promote you to panelist. Ron, there is money with that too. Now I can feel like Paul. Okay. This project is as you see, there is an inverse of volume loss through sufficient asked dueling. Many of the same benefits that Paul has talked about as far as reducing congestion in the port areas. That's one of the focuses here with this project as well. Such as you can see there, the problem statement is the terminals and terminals aren't definition here is really, it could be port terminal, anywhere where there is a gate where trucks are lining up to get into. But the inability for the terminal to schedule them, causes like fuel and and emissions cost and causing congestion on the streets and highways and they know they have to pick up a load but they are not aware of any specific time. In most cases as far as what is available. So they simply show up at the gate and wait in line. That's what causes all the problems. The causes in the enter modal volume. Continues to go up year after year. It is not valuable tools in the industry really for pick up and drop off of the containers or trailers and another big issue is the inability to collect data from the operating systems that that a schedule could be set up. In fact the current system, it negatively effects the scheduling in planning both side, the customer and trucking company. Increases the wait time. Number of turns the driver can have in a day is limited. You have the effects on vehicle and pedestrian traffic and again, like a lot of things Paul discussed, as far as air quality and emissions and that pretty much carries forward with this project as well. You will have higher transportation cost and safety issue as well. The a pick up for an appointment system for when they are going to show up at the gate. Minimize the wait time and overall congestion at the terminals. As far as the approach is to define the requirements and specifically and also identify any tech knowings that are out there today. That we may be able to leverage. Specific railroad as an example. They have a gate reservation system that is being roll ed out today. There maybe pieces of the code that we maybe able to leverage and certainly allow the requirements we have put together and roll it out for an entire industry type of application. Next step would be to pilot a demonstration. Build the application first in a demonstration mode and also then evaluate the results of that pilot and then it is a former, put together a former recommendation as far as technology to be applied if we roll it out to the industry. Expected partners at this point freight technology partners. IFTWG. Port container year-to-date. Enter modal operator he is and very important participants and of course, you have other effective public and private agencies and organizations would be involved. Anticipated benefits and improve the efficiency of the gate operations. Really increase the terminal capacity by reducing wait times they are they are trying to get it through the gate as quickly as possible. It goes better than everyone showing up and try to get through as best as possible. Really allow to have minimum pick up or drop off of containers. Better utilization of port resources. Over all reduction in cost sup as storage. And you would have the reduction in trucking hours per unit and improve traffic in the area both for vehicle and pedestrian. Hopefully less emissions based on the people having to wait less. You know, less time in lines and of course you have over all I improvement of life if you know what time you will get home. From a viability analysis, the changes I see is getting access to the terminal application systems and that would be the port terminal. -- and getting data out of the systems is not the easiest thing. We have to buy in from the customers for the proposed schedule. You don't want trucks showing up in the schedule. Then you have to get buy in from the drivers, and make sure they schedule their appointment time and we can do that PDA or cell phone. Or handheld device. If they are on the road, we have to make sure they don't need to get off the roadside stop and get their schedule. They need an interface they can have available to you them in the cab.