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AASHTO submits comments on National Strategic Freight Plan

Mid-America Freight Coalition 

AASHTO provided comments on freight reauthorization to the U.S. DOT this past February. The AASHTO freight policy perspective reflects a continued interest to better define the multimodal freight system, provide funding and program flexibility, allow for technological advances, build on freight performance measures, improve project delivery and re-establish a freight-specific, cooperative research program. The AASHTO media release and comment letter are available on the AASHTO Journal website.

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