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A Freight Plan for the NYMTC Region
Strategies were identified for the Plan through the following process:
• A public forum was held to solicit a broad and varied list of improvements. Further
input was obtained from NYMTC’s Freight Transportation Working Group (FTWG);
• NYMTC’s member agencies, as represented by its Program, Finance and Administration
Committee (PFAC), generated a working list of candidate freight strategies and actions
to test; and
• Actions were separated into short-term solutions with an implementation timeframe
roughly corresponding to the planning horizons of the MPO’s current Transportation
Improvement Program (TIP) and the state’s State Transportation Improvement
Program (STIP) planning horizons: (one to three years); mid-term solutions of three to
10 years; and long-term solutions of more than 10 years.
To facilitate technical analysis, strategies were initially grouped into three sets of “alternative
packages” with a common functional theme, as shown in Figure 3.2. The three alternatives
were:
• Policy and operational projects for both highway and rail;
• Capital-intensive rail projects; and
• Capital-intensive highway projects.
Figure 3.2
Regional Freight Plan Approach
Base
Case
Policy and
Operations Package
Rail
Package
Highway
Package
Modeling
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Compare to Base Case
Analyze Using Performance Measures
Future Scenario
Modeling
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