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Experiment - USA - Off-hour port operations ease traffic
CA,USA -Inside Bay Area -14 Oct 2005: -- When a cargo container is unloaded at the Port of Oakland and moved onto the back of an 18-wheel truck, that cargo container becomes a Bay Area commuter, with a fairly predictable timetable. There's a high concentration of them during the day and during the week. The thousands of cargo containers that come from the port have a profound effect on Bay Area commutes... Now the port has begun experimenting with off-hour operations at one of its terminals, keeping one of its eight terminals open from 6 p.m. to 2:30 a.m., making it a so-called night gate... The Oakland International Container Terminal, which handles exports only, is the largest terminal, the hub of about 2,500 daily truck trips. Port officials are hoping about 15 percent of that traffic will move to the later hours...
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