Sec. 8001. Multimodal freight transportation
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Subtitle IX of title 49, United States Code, is amended to read as follows: Chapter Sec. 701. Multimodal freight policy 70101 702. Multimodal freight transportation planning and information 70201 Sec. 70101. National multimodal freight policy. 70102. National freight strategic plan. 70103. National Multimodal Freight Network. It is the policy of the United States to maintain and improve the condition and performance of the National Multimodal Freight Network established under section 70103 to ensure that the Network provides a foundation for the United States to compete in the global economy and achieve the goals described in subsection (b).
The goals of the national multimodal freight policy are— to identify infrastructure improvements, policies, and operational innovations that— strengthen the contribution of the National Multimodal Freight Network to the economic competitiveness of the United States; reduce congestion and eliminate bottlenecks on the National Multimodal Freight Network; and increase productivity, particularly for domestic industries and businesses that create high-value jobs; to improve the safety, security, efficiency, and resiliency of multimodal freight transportation; to achieve and maintain a state of good repair on the National Multimodal Freight Network; to use innovation and advanced technology to improve the safety, efficiency, and reliability of the National Multimodal Freight Network; to improve the economic efficiency of the National Multimodal Freight Network; to improve the short- and long-distance movement of goods that— travel across rural areas between population centers; travel between rural areas and population centers; and travel from the Nation’s ports, airports, and gateways to the National Multimodal Freight Network; to improve the flexibility of States to support multi-State corridor planning and the creation of multi-State organizations to increase the ability of States to address multimodal freight connectivity; and to reduce the adverse environmental impacts of freight movement on the National Multimodal Freight Network.
Not later than 2 years after the date of enactment of this section, the Secretary of Transportation shall— develop a national freight strategic plan in accordance with this section; and publish the plan on the public Internet Web site of the Department of Transportation. The national freight strategic plan shall include— an assessment of the condition and performance of the National Multimodal Freight Network; forecasts of freight volumes for the succeeding 5-, 10-, and 20-year periods; an identification of major trade gateways and national freight corridors that connect major population centers, trade gateways, and other major freight generators; an identification of bottlenecks on the National Multimodal Freight Network that create significant freight congestion, based on a quantitative methodology developed by the Secretary, which shall, at a minimum, include— information from the Freight Analysis Framework of the Federal Highway Administration; and to the maximum extent practicable, an estimate of the cost of addressing each bottleneck and any operational improvements that could be implemented; an assessment of statutory, regulatory, technological, institutional, financial, and other barriers to improved freight transportation performance, and a description of opportunities for overcoming the barriers; an identification of best practices for improving the performance of the National Multimodal Freight Network; a process for addressing multistate projects and encouraging jurisdictions to collaborate; and strategies to improve freight intermodal connectivity.
Not later than 5 years after the date of completion of the national freight strategic plan under subsection (a), and every 5 years thereafter, the Secretary shall update the plan and publish the updated plan on the public Internet Web site of the Department of Transportation. The Secretary shall develop and update the national freight strategic plan in consultation with State departments of transportation, metropolitan planning organizations, and other appropriate public and private transportation stakeholders.
Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this section, the Secretary of Transportation shall establish the National Multimodal Freight Network in accordance with this section— to focus Federal policy on the most strategic freight assets; and to assist in strategically directing resources and policies toward improved performance of the National Multimodal Freight Network. The National Multimodal Freight Network shall include— the National Highway Freight Network, as established under section 167 of title 23; the freight rail systems of Class I railroads, as designated by the Surface Transportation Board; the public ports of the United States that have total annual foreign and domestic trade of at least 2,000,000 short tons, as identified by the Waterborne Commerce Statistics Center of the Army Corps of Engineers, using the data from the latest year for which such data is available; the inland and intracoastal waterways of the United States, as described in section 206 of the Inland Waterways Revenue Act of 1978 ( 33 U.S.C. 1804 ); the Great Lakes, the St.
Lawrence Seaway, and coastal routes along which domestic freight is transported; the 50 airports located in the United States with the highest annual landed weight, as identified by the Federal Aviation Administration; and other strategic freight assets, including strategic intermodal facilities and freight rail lines of Class II and Class III railroads, designated by the Secretary as critical to interstate commerce. In determining network components in subsection (b), the Secretary may consider strategic freight assets identified by States, including public ports if such ports do not meet the annual tonnage threshold, for inclusion on the National Multimodal Freight Network.
Not later than 5 years after the date of establishment of the National Multimodal Freight Network under subsection (a), and every 5 years thereafter, the Secretary shall update the National Multimodal Freight Network. The Secretary shall establish and update the National Multimodal Freight Network in consultation with State departments of transportation and other appropriate public and private transportation stakeholders. In this section, the term landed weight means the weight of an aircraft transporting only cargo in intrastate, interstate, or foreign air transportation, as such terms are defined in section 40102(a).
Sec. 70201. State freight advisory committees. 70202. State freight plans. 70203. Data and tools. The Secretary of Transportation shall encourage each State to establish a freight advisory committee consisting of a representative cross-section of public and private sector freight stakeholders, including representatives of ports, freight railroads, shippers, carriers, freight-related associations, third-party logistics providers, the freight industry workforce, the transportation department of the State, and local governments.
A freight advisory committee of a State described in subsection
(a)shall— advise the State on freight-related priorities, issues, projects, and funding needs; serve as a forum for discussion for State transportation decisions affecting freight mobility; communicate and coordinate regional priorities with other organizations; promote the sharing of information between the private and public sectors on freight issues; and participate in the development of the freight plan of the State described in section 70202. Each State shall develop a freight plan that provides a comprehensive plan for the immediate and long-range planning activities and investments of the State with respect to freight. A freight plan described in subsection
(a)shall include, at a minimum— an identification of significant freight system trends, needs, and issues with respect to the State; a description of the freight policies, strategies, and performance measures that will guide the freight-related transportation investment decisions of the State; a description of how the plan will improve the ability of the State to meet the national freight goals described in section 70101; evidence of consideration of innovative technologies and operational strategies, including intelligent transportation systems, that improve the safety and efficiency of freight movement; in the case of routes on which travel by heavy vehicles (including mining, agricultural, energy cargo or equipment, and timber vehicles) is projected to substantially deteriorate the condition of roadways, a description of improvements that may be required to reduce or impede the deterioration; and an inventory of facilities with freight mobility issues, such as truck bottlenecks, within the State, and a description of the strategies the State is employing to address those freight mobility issues. A freight plan described in subsection
(a)may be developed separately from or incorporated into the statewide transportation plans required by section 135 of title 23. If the freight plan described in subsection
(a)is developed separately from the State transportation improvement program, the freight plan shall be updated at least every 5 years. Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this section, the Secretary shall— begin development of new tools or improve existing tools to support an outcome-oriented, performance-based approach to evaluate proposed freight-related and other transportation projects, including— methodologies for systematic analysis of benefits and costs; tools for ensuring that the evaluation of freight-related and other transportation projects may consider safety, economic competitiveness, environmental sustainability, and system condition in the project selection process; and other elements to assist in effective transportation planning; identify transportation-related freight travel models and model data elements to support a broad range of evaluation methods and techniques to assist in making transportation investment decisions; and at a minimum, in consultation with other relevant Federal agencies, consider any improvements to existing freight flow data collection efforts, including improved methods to standardize and manage the data, that could reduce identified freight data gaps and deficiencies and help improve forecasts of freight transportation demand. The Secretary shall consult with Federal, State, and other stakeholders to develop, improve, and implement the tools and collect the data described in subsection (a). . The analysis of subtitles for title 49, United States Code, is amended by striking the item relating to subtitle IX and inserting the following: IX. Multimodal Freight Transportation 70101 . Sections 1117 and 1118 of MAP–21 ( Public Law 112–141 ), and the items relating to such sections in the table of contents in section 1(c) of such Act, are repealed.
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