A system designed to reduce congestion at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach has diverted 30m trucks away from peak traffic over the past nine years.
The ‘OffPeak’ system was launched in July 2005, after a congestion crisis in 2004, to ease traffic on city streets and reduce emissions from trucks waiting outside of terminals.
Under the programme, the ports operate additional shifts over night and on Saturdays that now account for around 17,000 trucks on an average weeknight, 55% of the ports’ daily truck-borne container traffic.
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