Freight Projects and Funding

Implementing projects to maintain and enhance the region's freight network is vital to the region's competition in the global economy. In the Delaware Valley, many of the desired capital projects are those which are designed to maximize each individual mode of freight transportation and afford seamless intermodal linkages.

As evidenced throughout the country, successful regional freight initiatives are based on private-public partnerships. These partnerships are essential to implementing projects that can have economic, traffic, safety, and environmental benefits.

SAFETEA-LU Provisions
The latest iteration of federal transportation legislation, SAFETEA-LU, contains numerous freight planning and programming provisions.

Suggest A Project
DVRPC has created a special program called, Freight Forward, which allows truck drivers and others to suggest projects which can be implemented quickly.

Funding [.ppt]
DVRPC has embraced an approach of tapping into all public and private sources to fund transportation projects.

TIP Excerpts
Examples of projects which facilitate freight movement can be found throughout the New Jersey and Pennsylvania Transportation Improvement Programs.