Month: July 2011

AASHTO/FHWA Freight Partnership IV Meeting

Conferences Events MAFC

Kansas City, Missouri August 2-5, 2011 The Missouri Department of Transportation and Kansas Department of Transportation are excited to host the AASHTO/FHWA Freight Partnership IV meeting at the InterContinental Kansas City at the Plaza on August 2-5, 2011. Check out the schedule of events and visit the official website for more information and to register.

MAFC Program Director Position Available

CFIRE MAFC

National Center for Freight and Infrastructure Research and Education (CFIRE) University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison, WI CFIRE is seeking to hire a program director for the Mid-America Freight Coalition. The program director facilitates and manages the MAFC research and outreach programs, conducts freight research, provides member services to coalition members, and represents the MAFC and CFIRE […]

Spring 2011 Freight Notes

Freight Notes

The Spring 2011 edition of Freight Notes is now available. This issue contains: Ship Building on the Great Lakes Measuring Transportation Performance Regional Freight Study: Performance Measures Regional Freight Study: Key Industries Regional Freight Study: Communications Workshop: MAFC Outreach Materials Wisconsin’s Long-range Transportation Plan This edition of Freight Notes is also available as a print-friendly […]

Wisconsin's Long-range Transportation Plan

Freight Notes Funding Highway Maritime Rail

Officially adopted in 2009, Connections 2030 is the long-range transportation plan for Wisconsin. The plan addresses all forms of transportation; integrates transportation modes; and identifies policies and implementation priorities to aid transportation decision makers when evaluating program and project priorities over the next 20 years. Connections 2030 is a comprehensive transportation plan for moving people […]

Measuring Transportation Performance

Freight Notes Funding Performance Measures

Many of us in the transportation community have been lamenting the lack of action at the federal level in the reauthorization of transportation programs. We have been operating on continuing resolutions and loans from the general fund for a very long time and Congressional action still seems years in the future. I recently had the […]

Ship Building on the Great Lakes

Freight Notes Maritime

In a recent issue of Freight Notes (No. 11), I reported comments made at a listening session sponsored by MARAD on the future of Great Lakes shipping. Some of those comments, which I said surprised me, questioned whether the shipbuilding industry on the Lakes had the capacity to build a new thousand-foot laker from scratch. […]