Freight Planning

Local & State Freight Planning

The Texas Transportation Commission adopted the Texas Freight Mobility Plan (Freight Plan) in January 2016. It is the first plan developed by the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) that focuses on Texas’ freight transportation needs. The statewide Freight Plan:

• Establishes goals and objectives that align with TxDOT’s other statewide planning efforts and with federal transportation legislation
• Identifies freight transportation needs and challenges
• Outlines policies and programs needed to address them
• Evaluates the impact of freight movement on Texas’ economy
• Identifies freight transportation facilities and investments critical to economic growth
• Serves as an investment guide for freight transportation improvements

TxDOT is currently updating the Freight Plan to meet FAST Act requirements published in 2016. By December 1, 2017, TxDOT will submit the revised Freight Plan to the US Department of Transportation, taking into account:

• Critical Rural Freight Corridors (CRFC): a state-identified network meeting certain requirements (map)
• Critical Urban Freight Corridors (CUFC): an MPO-identified network, defined in consultation with the state (map)
• Consideration of significant congestion or delay caused by freight movements and strategies to mitigate that congestion or delay
• Fiscally Constrained Investment Plan (project listing): funding to complete listed projects that will be available within the time period identified in the freight investment plan

Read the full Freight Plan.

Local Efforts

In 2017, the Alamo Area MPO has been engaged in:

• Participating in the study to improve vehicular mobility at highway-rail crossings (led by the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT)
• Reviewing strategies to mitigate truck congestion in the Texas Triangle (led by the Texas A&M Transportation Institute)
• Providing input on the development of the Texas Freight Mobility Plan Update (led by TxDOT)
• Identifying freight origins/destinations as well as the Critical Urban Freight Corridors required by the FAST Act for our region. In April 2017, AAMPO submitted to TxDOT 50 miles of corridors identified as critical to local freight. Read more about the process we followed to designate these corridors.

Local Presentations

• Presentation to AAMPO's Transportation Policy Board (4/24/2017)
  • Action on Critical Urban and Rural Freight Corridors (Linda Alvarado-Vela, AAMPO)
• Presentation to AAMPO's Technical Advisory Committee (4/7/2017)
  • Action on Critical Urban and Rural Freight Corridors (Linda Alvarado-Vela, AAMPO)
• Presentation to AAMPO's Transportation Policy Board (3/27/2017)
  • Status of Freight Planning in the Alamo Area MPO (Linda Alvarado-Vela, AAMPO)
• Presentation to AAMPO's Technical Advisory Committe (3/10/2017)
  • Status of Freight Planning in the Alamo Area MPO (Linda Alvarado-Vela, AAMPO)
• Presentation to AAMPO's Transportation Policy Board (12/5/2016)
  • Status of Freight Planning in the Alamo Area MPO (Allison Blazosky, AAMPO)
• Presentation to AAMPO's Technical Advisory Committee (11/16/2016)
  • Status of Freight Planning in the Alamo Area MPO (Allison Blazosky, AAMPO)
• Presentations to AAMPO's Technical Advisory Committee (10/7/2016)
  • FAST Act Provisions (Melissa Meyer, TxDOT Federal Affairs)
  • Texas Freight Mobility Plan Implementation (Kale Driemeier, Planner, TxDOT Freight and International Trade Section)
  • Status of Freight Planning in the Alamo Area MPO (Allison Blazosky, AAMPO)