presented to

presented by

Paula Dowell, PhD

Transportation leadership you can trust.

Freight Corridors Concept

ITTS Freight in the Southeast Conference

March 14, 2012

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Defining Freight Corridors From National to Regional

Examples

• Canada Strategic Gateways and Corridors

• Mexico Multimodal Freight Corridor Master

Plan

• EU TEN-T

• FHWA Gateways and Corridor Concept

• Connecting gateways and

markets

• Interstate commerce

Federal/National

• Connecting internal and external

markets

• Intermodal connectors

• I-81 Corridor

• I-70 Corridor

• Heartland Corridor

• FL SIS Corridors

• MS Trade Corridors

• I-15 Corridor

• GA Trade Corridors

State/Multistate

• Connecting to other economic

regions

• Regional distribution networks

Regional • Atlanta region

• Houston region

• Chicago region

Roles

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Canada National Policy

•Pacific Gateway

•Continental Gateway

•Atlantic Gateway

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Mexico Multimodal Freight Corridor

Plan

Road

Rail

Maritime Ports

Land Ports of

Entry

Legend

Source: Mexico Multimodal Freight Corridor Master Plan, SCT, (2009)

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Trans-European Transport Network

(TEN-T)

•83 main European ports with rail and

road links

•37 key airports with rail connections

into major cities

•15,000 km of railway line upgraded to

high speed

•35 cross border projects to reduce

bottlenecks

FHWA Gateways and Corridor

Framework

Assessing need for multimodal gateway and

corridor capacity to ensure U.S.

competitiveness

Assessing opportunities to enhance North

American multimodal capacity

Major Freight Corridors in U.S.,

Volume

7 Source: U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration,

Office of Freight Management and Operations, 2008.

STATE CORRIDORS

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Multi-State Corridors

I-95 Corridor Coalition

National I-10 Freight Corridor

Mississippi

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Strategic Multimodal

Commerce

Corridors

Mississippi Goods Movement and Trade Study,

MDOT

Florida SIS and Trade and Logistics

Study

11 Florida Department of Transportation

Georgia Statewide Freight and

Logistics Plan, 2010-2050

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Georgia Department of Transportation

Multimodal

Corridors ,

Gateways and

Nodes

REGIONAL FREIGHT CORRIDORS

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Atlanta Freight Subsystem

Atlanta Regional

Freight Mobility

Plan, Atlanta

Regional

Commission

Houston-Galveston Stakeholder

Identified Freight Corridors

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H-GAC Regional Goods Movement Plan,

H-GAC

Chicago Freight

Plan

16 The Metropolis Freight Plan

Freight Corridors – Common Features

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Gateways and Markets

Multimodal Economic

activity centers

Intermodal connectors

Shared usage