National Freight Strategy Framework
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Section II. Beyond Traffic Freight Economy Roundtable Stories and Themes
- Efficiency of Freight Movement
- Modal Connectivity and Coordinated Planning
- Community Impacts
- Innovative Solutions and Emerging Technologies
- Workforce Challenges and Job Opportunities
- Federal Involvement
Section III. Trends and Challenges
- Expected Growth in Freight Tonnage
- Underinvestment in the Freight System
- Difficulty in Planning and Implementing Freight Projects
- Continued Need to Address Safety, Security, and Resilience
- Increased Global Economic Competition
- Application and Deployment of New Techologies
Section IV: Strategies and Future Considerations
- Improve the safety, security and resilence of the freight transporation system
- Mitigate impacts of freight projects/movements on communities
- Support research and promote adoption of new technologies and best practices
- Reduce the confusion, constraints and workload burden on the private sector, States, and MPOs relating to the national freight mapping initiatives
- Develop, foster and implement environmental initiatives
- Prioritize public and private investment by applying a mulimodal supply-chain, end-to-end analytical framework that will focus on reducing congestion and other challenges facing our nation
- Integrate multimodal infrastructure within the system and eliminate systemic bottlenecks at intermodal connection points
- Incentivize multimodal infrastructure, corridor and system planning
- Expand multimodal flexibility
- Encourage multimodal solutions to address performance issues
