United States - European Commission Urban Freight Twinning Initiative: Compendium of Project Summaries, Volume II
Overview of 2018-2019 International Urban Freight Roundtables
| Metro Plans | Pilot | United States |
The St. Louis Regional Freightway
The St. Louis Regional Freightway is setting multimodal transportation priorities to optimize the St. Louis region's freight transportation network through public and private partnerships. The St. Louis region's collaborative effort in setting transportation priorities includes industry leaders representing two States, eight counties, over 240 municipalities, and 14,000 manufacturing and logistics companies. The 75-member Freight Development Committee provides an opportunity for the region's supply chain to set infrastructure priorities based on a project's ability to lower transportation costs and optimize the freight network. Project criteria includes economic, multimodal, and efficiency impact, and safety and security in travel. The project list is a tool for elected leaders, departments of transportation (DOTs), and regional leaders to better understand infrastructure needs of manufacturing and logistics industries representing the nation's supply chain. The list is publicly released during the spring and is available on thefreightway.com. The list was unanimously approved by the region's metropolitan planning organization (MPO) in Fall 2017. Project justifications are used as a tool to facilitate strategic planning for infrastructure investment and funding options. The priority list is included with Missouri DOT's State Freight Plan and is coordinated with Illinois DOT's Freight Advisory Council.
Merchants Rail Bridge over the Mississippi River.
Source: St. Louis Regional Freightway.
Project Types
Metropolitan Plan, Pilot.
Period of Performance
April 2016 - April 2019.
Project Sites
St. Louis Metropolitan Area (Missouri-Illinois), USA.
Contact
Mary C. Lamie
Executive Director
St. Louis Regional Freightway
St. Louis, Missouri, USA
MCLamie@thefreightway.com
(314) 315-3014
Topics Addressed
- Economic competitiveness.
- Last mile delivery.
- Logistics/distribution.
- Mobility/congestion.
- Modeling.
- Safety.
- Supply chains.
- Other: Innovative finance.
Expected Outcomes
The Freightway's efforts will inform bi-State, multi-jurisdictional freight planning with the region's supply chain, the DOTs, and the MPO. Additionally, the Freightway will develop and implement a program that collects and assesses data to characterize movements of freight-related shipments within the St. Louis region.
Stakeholder Involvement
Stakeholder involvement includes one-on-one meetings, participating in transportation hearings, generating project letters of support, and hosting public-private panel discussions. The Freightway committee members include manufacturing, logistics, Class I railroads, trucking companies, barge operators, airports, industrial real estate brokers and developers, Illinois DOT, Missouri DOT, and the region's MPO.
