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A Freight Plan for the NYMTC Region<br />
1.0 NYMTC’s Freight Plan:<br />
A Roadmap to a 21 st Century<br />
Freight System<br />
The purpose of the <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> <strong>Metropolitan</strong> <strong>Transportation</strong> Council (NYMTC) Regional<br />
Freight Plan Project is to develop a roadmap for improving <strong>freight</strong> transportation in the<br />
NYMTC region. The <strong>freight</strong> <strong>plan</strong> presents a wide range of strategies and actions that<br />
include capital projects, operational improvements, and policy changes. These strategies<br />
are multimodal, including highway, rail, and marine, and can be implemented in the short<br />
term (one to three years), mid term (three to 10 years), and long term (more than 10 years).<br />
Some of the recommendations in the report call for short-term actions around which a<br />
<strong>regional</strong> consensus already exists. In the case of most of the capital intensive, long-term<br />
projects, the recommendations are for the project proponent to proceed with the <strong>plan</strong>ning<br />
process such as the completion of a Major Investment Study (MIS) or Environmental<br />
Impact Statement (EIS) in conjunction with corridor-wide studies.<br />
NYMTC has used this <strong>freight</strong> <strong>plan</strong>ning process to reach a consensus on the problems facing<br />
the region and on the goals and objectives of a <strong>regional</strong> <strong>freight</strong> program. This process<br />
also emphasizes the importance of individual agency initiatives, and the need for coordination<br />
across these agencies. This is an appropriate function for a metropolitan <strong>plan</strong>ning<br />
organization (MPO), which typically looks beyond the operational and geographic<br />
responsibilities of individual agencies.<br />
Many related studies are underway or <strong>plan</strong>ned in the NYMTC region. Following is a list<br />
of the efforts (and their sponsors) that are discussed in this report:<br />
• Truck Route Management and Community Impact Reduction Study, <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> City<br />
Department of <strong>Transportation</strong> (NYCDOT);<br />
• Port Inland Distribution Network, Port Authority of <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> and <strong>New</strong> Jersey<br />
(PANYNJ);<br />
• Hudson Line Railroad Corridor <strong>Transportation</strong> Plan, NYSDOT, <strong>Metropolitan</strong> Transit<br />
Authority (MTA), Amtrak, and CSX Railroad;<br />
• East-of-Hudson Rail Freight Study, PANYNJ;<br />
• Pilgrim Intermodal Terminal Feasibility Study and EIS (pending), NYSDOT;<br />
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