MAP Forum Multi-State Freight Working Group

The NJTPAis the federally authorized Metropolitan Planning Organization for the 13-county northern New Jersey region. Each year, the agency oversees more than $2 billion in transportation improvement projects and provide a forum for interagency cooperation and public input.

North Jersey Transportation Planning Authority

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
 
<OL>
<LI>Welcome and Introductions (10:00 am – 10:10 am) – Mary Ameen, North Jersey Transportation Planning Authority</LI>
<LI>Regional Commodity and Goods Movement Trends and Developments (10:10 am – 11:00 am)<OL>
<LI>Freight Rail Industrial Opportunity Corridors Program – Anne Strauss-Wieder, North Jersey Transportation Planning Authority</LI>
<LI>Technological Impacts on Goods Movement – Chris Lamm, Cambridge Systematics</LI>
</OL></LI>
<LI>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)<OL>
<LI>Goods Movement Strategies for Communities Webtool Demonstration – Quanquan Chen, North Jersey Transportation Planning Authority</LI>
<LI>National Freight Fluidity Monitoring Program – Chris Lamm</LI>
<LI>Regional Freight Land Use Study – Gerry Bogacz, New York Metropolitan Transportation Council</LI>
<LI>Two-minute reports from MAP Forum members</LI>
</OL></LI>
<LI></LI>
<LI>Future Working Group Activities (12:00 pm – 12:15 pm) -- Group<OL>
<LI>Next Meeting: October 2019, hosted by the Lehigh Valley Planning Commission</LI>
<LI>Issues for Future Consideration</LI>
</OL></LI>
</OL>
                                        i.    Truck Parking
                                                    ii.     Rail Freight
                                                  iii.     Marine Highways
                                                  iv.     Others?
<OL>
<LI>Adjourn (no later than 12:15 pm)</LI>
</OL>
Please note that the meeting also will be available as a webinar if you cannot attend in person:
<A HREF="https://njtpa.webex.com/njtpa/j.php?MTID=m933724aa105fc5397769b8068626279c" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://njtpa.webex.com/njtpa/j.php?MTID=m933724aa105fc5397769b8068626279c</A>
Meeting access code: 732 130 357
Meeting password: WFmV5QdH

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