1. Multi-state Freight Planning in the Mid-America Freight Coalition
Presented by Jason Bittner, Deputy Director
National Center for Freight & Infrastructure Research & Education (CFIRE)

2. Mid-America Freight Coalition
Operating since
Memorandum of Understanding
Key Efforts to Date
Regional Bottleneck Study
Truck Parking Analysis
Corridor Development
Regional Authorization Positions
Performance Impacts
Information clearinghouse

3. Regional Freight Planning Effort
Corridor Focus
Regional Economic Health
Uniformity and consistency
Identify underutilized capacity
Communications
Executive Buy-in

4. WHAT ARE THE THREE MOST IMPORTANT ITEMS
Continuous communications
Customer service
Identifying key regional commodity groups and champions
Find commonalities and don’t get hung up on the differences