Freight Professional Development Program
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Current News

  • Talking Freight Seminar, November 19, 2008 - Event: Freight and Land Use - Freight transportation planning, and its associated land use impacts, is a critical planning issue. Modern freight standards are increasingly leading to the obsolescence of older and established industrial and freight-related districts in metropolitan areas. The challenge of consolidating existing developed sites with differing owners, in combination with expected citizen opposition to expansion plans in some areas, leads many freight dependent industries to relocate to suburban and rural areas. MPOs are increasingly faced with addressing the transportation challenges created by these shifting freight movement patterns. This seminar will identify strategies that MPOs can apply to improve coordination between freight-related land use planning and transportation planning.
  • Freight Academy: An Immersion Program for Public Sector Transportation Professionals - The I-95 Corridor Coalition announces the first offering of the Freight Academy - a unique, week-long immersion program designed to efficiently train public sector agency staff involved in planning, operational, and/or management work that impact goods movement decisions, investments and interactions. The inaugural Academy program will be conducted at the Center for Advanced Infrastructure Training at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ from October 26 - 31, 2008. The application deadline is July 11, 2008.
  • Podcasts Now Available for Talking Freight Seminars - FHWA is now making podcasts available for the monthly Talking Freight seminars. MP3 audio files will be available for the seminars within two weeks following each seminar. This is meant to allow freight practitioners to listen to the seminars whenever and wherever you choose - on your way to and from work, at the gym, etc. The podcast of the May 21 seminar, as well as more information about the seminar series, is available through the link below (select the link under the Past Seminars section of the page to get to the podcast files).
  • Center for Latin-American Logistics Innovation Formed in a Joint Effort Between MIT and LOGyCA - The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and LOGyCA, a Colombia-based logistics company recently signed a $19 million agreement to create the Center for Latin-American Logistics Innovation (CLLI). CLLI is the third member of MIT's international network of centers dedicated to supply chain education and research.
  • More Freight Related News

Key Program Elements

Training consisting of the following: Courses, Workshops, Seminars, and Conferences
Technical Assistance consisting of the following: Freight Coordinator Position Description, Talking Freight, Freight Planning LISTSERVE, Freight Peer-to-Peer, Data and Analytical Tools, and Vehicle Size and Weight
Resource Library consisting of the following: Reports, Noteworthy Practices, Presentations, and Videos
Education consisting of the following: Academic Programs and Transportation Centers of Excellence

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