The Metropolitan Area Planning (MAP) Forum announces the fourth meeting of its Multi-State Freight Working Group on May 14, 2019 at 10:00 am. For security purposes, anyone interested in attending in person should RSVP no later than noon on Friday May 10, 2019. Please be sure and have a photo ID at the meeting location.

The MAP Forum is a consortium of metropolitan planning organizations and councils of government in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Pennsylvania that have signed a Memorandum of Understanding for the coordination of planning activities in the multi-state metropolitan region.

MEETING AGENDA

1. Welcome and Introductions (10:00 am – 10:10 am) – Mary Ameen, North Jersey Transportation Planning Authority
2. Regional Commodity and Goods Movement Trends and Developments (10:10 am – 11:00 am)
   1. Freight Rail Industrial Opportunity Corridors Program – Anne Strauss-Wieder, North Jersey Transportation Planning Authority
   2. Technological Impacts on Goods Movement – Chris Lamm, Cambridge Systematics
3. Updates on Freight Planning Studies & Activities (11:00 am – 11:45 am)Statewide Freight Plan Status in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Pennsylvania (11:45 am – 12:00 pm)
   1. Goods Movement Strategies for Communities Webtool Demonstration – Quanquan Chen, North Jersey Transportation Planning Authority
   2. National Freight Fluidity Monitoring Program – Chris Lamm
   3. Regional Freight Land Use Study – Gerry Bogacz, New York Metropolitan Transportation Council
   4. Two-minute reports from MAP Forum members
5. Future Working Group Activities (12:00 pm – 12:15 pm) -- Group
   1. Next Meeting: October 2019, hosted by the Lehigh Valley Planning Commission
   2. Issues for Future Consideration

i. Truck Parking

ii. Rail Freight

iii. Marine Highways

iv. Others?

1. Adjourn (no later than 12:15 pm)

Please note that the meeting also will be available as a webinar if you cannot attend in person:

https://njtpa.webex.com/njtpa/j.php?MTID=m933724aa105fc5397769b8068626279c

Meeting access code: 732 130 357

Meeting password: WFmV5QdH