01485236

Component

The Northern Minnesota/Northwest Wisconsin Regional Freight Plan is a multimodal, comprehensive look at freight movement beyond traditional state and metro area boundaries. This freight planning effort built upon prior planning activities by the Minnesota Department of Transportation, Wisconsin Department of Transportation, the Duluth-Superior Metropolitan Interstate Council, the Arrowhead Regional Development Commission, and the University of Wisconsin Superior Transportation and Logistics Program. The plan was undertaken to provide a better understanding of the demand from freight transportation on the local and regional transportation infrastructure and to identify necessary improvements that enhance freight mobility and accommodate economic growth within the region. It emphasizes heightened inter-agency coordination, stakeholder engagement, critical investment making and assists the region in creating a vision for maintaining and improving the freight system. This area has some unique challenges and opportunities in the freight movement system. Potential new mining developments in Northeast Minnesota in integrated steel making, nonferrous mining and mining byproducts create pressure on current transportation resources. Other transportation challenges include moving large wind energy components to sites throughout the Northern Plains and Midwest and over-dimension equipment bound for the Oil Sands in Alberta. These large pieces are manufactured worldwide and arrive at the Duluth port by water and move out by truck and rail. The principal elements of this plan include a freight inventory, freight analysis stakeholder engagement followed by research on key regional freight issues and trends. Recommendations were developed to address policies and improve freight related infrastructure.

01483192

English

11p

2010

12th National Conference on Transportation Planning for Small and Medium-Sized Communities

Digital/other

CD-ROM; Maps

Demand; Economic growth; Freight traffic; Infrastructure; Mobility; Multimodal transportation; Transportation planning

Minnesota; Wisconsin

Freight Transportation; Planning and Forecasting; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Jun 27 2013 11:06AM

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• A New Traffic Assignment Method for Small and Medium Communities
• A Standardized Tool for Calculating Road User Benefits
• A Transportation Safety Planning Tool for the City of Ames
• An Economical Methodology for Development of Land Use and Socio-economic Forecasts for Long-range Transportation Plans (LRTPS)
• An Investigation of the Transferability of Trip Generation Models
• Application of a Combined Travel Demand and Microsimulation Model for a Small City
• Application of Dynamic Traffic Assignment in a Small-Urban Area
• Applying a Multi-Resolution Modeling Approach for Master Planning of State Route 285 Corridor at Wenatchee Valley, WA
• Applying the Housing + Transportation Affordability Index in Your Metro Area
• Circulator Guidebook: Dupage Local Area Circulator Study
• Comparison of Five Metropolitan Washington Travel Demand Models
• Data Alternatives in Support of Regional Travel Demand Modeling
• Developing Travel Demand Modeling Tools for Medium-Sized Communities in Virginia
• Dynamic Model Visualization and Investigation
• Estimating Arterial Performance in Small and Medium-Sized Communities
• GLOBEWARM – A Tool to Estimate Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Roadway Vehicles
• Integrating Planning and Operations for a Comprehensive Transportation Management System
• Lessons Learned: A Community Driven Approach to Infrastructure Improvement
• Moving the Guests at a 400th Anniversary: Jamestown 2007
• MPO Planning Resources – An Internet-Based Tool
• Prioritizing Projects for the Metropolitan Transportation Plan -- The Lexington Experience
• Public Involvement in Bicycle Safety
• Safe Routes to School: A Collaborative Approach
• Small-Town Transportation Assessments that Work: Combining Community Learning and Research Strategies
• The School Travel Plan as a Community Planning Tool
• Transit Node Analysis: Comparing Street-Level Physical and Socioeconomic Factors Using a Layered GIS Approach
• Transportation of Wind Energy Industry Components: Planning for Growth in the Heartland
• Using a Federal Database and Local Industry Sector Knowledge to Develop Future Freight Forecasts
• Using Decision Trees in Transportation Planning and Analysis
• Vacant Land Inventory and Development Assessment Tool