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West Oakland

Truck Management Plan

Purpose

To Limit the impact of transport trucks* on West Oakland's local streets

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Extent

Truck drivers, truck driving routes in West Oakland near the Seaport, and reduction of emissions in community

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Prepared by

City of Oakland, Port of Oakland

Goals

  1. Protect businesses of West Oakland by limiting truck circulation and parking

  2. Increase pedestrian safety

  3. Ensure truck drivers are aware of these changes

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How does it impact you?

Diesel exhaust from excessive truck emissions creates air quality issues to arise, leading to exacerbated symptoms of asthma

*transport trucks refer to trucks that transport cargo and are typically linked to a port's distribution process 

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TMP Scope:

 

West Oakland, Port of Oakland, former OAB*, and Industrial area of Jack London Square north of Jefferson Street

*OAB is an acronym for the former Oakland Army Base

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Source: West Oakland Truck Management Plan, 2019

TMP Goals: 

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  • Minimize impact of truck circulation and truck parking on residents and businesses in West Oakland

  • Increase safety along truck routes

  • Ensure that driver’s are aware of destination routes and parking restrictions

 

 

Strategies You Should Know:

 

Only strategies 1-3 refer to the Oakland community. Strategies 4-10, while effective for truck drivers, aren’t angled towards the perspective of a local resident.

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  1. Improve safety at street intersections near the port to encourage more pedestrian usage and bicycle routes (start in year 1 and will take approx 3-5 years to fully implement) 

  2. Improve truck routing to reduce truck driving in residential areas on local streets (start in year 1 and will take approx 1 year to implement)

  3. Update the network of truck routes and truck prohibited streets to improve effectiveness of truck routes and ensure vulnerable residents are shielded from carbon emissions and noise pollution (start in year 1 and will take approx 3 years to implement)

 

 

Air quality issues:

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  • Truck circulation through residential Oakland neighborhoods poses issues of air quality

  • According to research done at Rutgers University’s Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute (EOHSI), diesel exhaust from trucks causes airway stress in people prone to asthma (study tested 16 individuals with mild to moderate asthma and exposed them to clean air for one hour and then diesel exhausted air for the second hour

  • Diesel exhaust is linked to particulate matter air pollution which causes these asthmatic symptoms to arise

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