Delaware Valley Good Movement Task Force Synopsis

Purpose
Maximize the Delaware Valley's position in the global economy by promoting local freight operations and implementing a regional goods movement strategy.

Focus
The movement of freight and the region’s freight transportation network comprised of highways, railroads, ports, airports, and intermodal facilities.

Objectives

• Insure the participation of the freight industry in the planning process.

• Identify improvements to facilitate the safe and efficient movement of freight.

• Implement regional congestion and intermodal management programs.

• Improve communications, and data and technology sharing.

Results
Technical studies, capital improvements to transportation facilities, and greater considerations of freight movement in short and long-range plans.

Area
The Philadelphia, Trenton, Camden, and Chester metropolitan region consisting of 5.4 million residents and 2.8 million jobs and including Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery and Philadelphia counties in Pennsylvania and Burlington, Camden, Gloucester, and Mercer counties in New Jersey.

Meetings
Meetings of the full Goods Movement Task Force are conducted on a quarterly basis. Subcommittee meetings are held as warranted.

Membership
Open to all freight interests such as shippers and receivers, Class I and short-line railroads, port operators and agencies, trucking firms and associations, air cargo carriers, third party logistics companies, industrial development organizations, state departments of transportation, and federal and county agencies.

Chairs

• Eric Madden, Deputy Secretary, PennDOT
• Don Shanis, Deputy Executive Director, DVRPC

Subcommittees

• Data; Chair: Rick Crawford, Norfolk Southern Corporation
• Planning; Chair: Kelvin MacKavanagh, Consultant
• Shippers; Chair: Edward King, Sunoco, Inc.