{"id":7875,"date":"2018-09-18T21:01:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-18T21:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mafc.engr.wisc.edu\/?page_id=7875"},"modified":"2018-12-03T19:48:32","modified_gmt":"2018-12-03T19:48:32","slug":"upper-midwest-freight-corridor-study","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/midamericafreight.org\/index.php\/rfs\/upper-midwest-freight-corridor-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Upper Midwest Freight Corridor Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Upper Midwest Freight Corridor Study (UMFCS) concluded on October 31,\u00a02006\u00a0with the submission of the project\u2019s final report.<\/p>\n<p>Begun in 2003, the\u00a0UMFCS\u00a0was dedicated to meeting the challenges of freight movement and economic vitality in the Upper Midwest. The seven states of Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, Minnesota, and Iowa, as well as the provinces of Ontario and Manitoba,\u00a0all\u00a0participated in the\u00a0UMFCS\u00a0along with the Federal Highway Administration and researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the University of Illinois-Chicago, and the University of Toledo.<\/p>\n<p>The Upper Midwest Freight Corridor Study\u2019s efforts focused on developing capacity, regulatory, planning, and public\/private initiatives to help meet the nation\u2019s need for safe, efficient and sustainable infrastructure for the movement of goods.<\/p>\n<p>The reports from this project are available for download in PDF:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/midamericafreight.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/umfcs_finalreport-1.pdf\">Phase I Final Report (474 pages), March 2005<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/midamericafreight.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/umfcc_phase2_final_report-6-1-06-1.pdf\">Phase II Final Report (181 pages), June 2006<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/midamericafreight.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/umfcs_studyarea1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7878\" src=\"http:\/\/midamericafreight.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/umfcs_studyarea1-300x223.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"223\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Upper Midwest Freight Corridor Study (UMFCS) concluded on October 31,\u00a02006\u00a0with the submission of the project\u2019s final report. Begun in 2003, the\u00a0UMFCS\u00a0was dedicated to meeting the challenges of freight movement and economic vitality in the Upper Midwest. The seven states of Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, Minnesota, and Iowa, as well as the provinces of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":2344,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/page-rfs.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7875","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/midamericafreight.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/midamericafreight.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/midamericafreight.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midamericafreight.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midamericafreight.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7875"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/midamericafreight.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10046,"href":"https:\/\/midamericafreight.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7875\/revisions\/10046"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midamericafreight.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midamericafreight.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}