Sec. 42001. National freight strategic plan
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Chapter 54 of subtitle III of title 49, United States Code (as amended by title XLI), is amended by adding at the end the following: Not later than 3 years after the date of enactment of the DRIVE Act , the Secretary, in consultation with State departments of transportation, metropolitan planning organizations, and other appropriate public and private transportation stakeholders, shall develop, after providing opportunity for notice and comment on a draft national freight strategic plan, and post on the public website of the Department of Transportation a national freight strategic plan that includes— an assessment of the condition and performance of the national multimodal freight network; 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; a forecast of freight volumes, based on the most recent data available, for— the 5-year period beginning in the year during which the plan is issued; and if practicable, for the 10- and 20-year period beginning in the year during which the plan is issued; an identification of major trade gateways and national freight corridors that connect major economic corridors, population centers, trade gateways, and other major freight generators for current and forecasted traffic and freight volumes, the identification of which shall be revised, as appropriate, in subsequent plans; an assessment of statutory, regulatory, technological, institutional, financial, and other barriers to improved freight transportation performance (including opportunities for overcoming the barriers); an identification of routes providing access to energy exploration, development, installation, or production areas; routes for providing access to major areas for manufacturing, agriculture, or natural resources; best practices for improving the performance of the national freight network; best practices to mitigate the impacts of freight movement on communities; a process for addressing multistate projects and encouraging jurisdictions to collaborate on multistate projects; identification of locations or areas with congestion involving freight traffic, and strategies to address those issues; strategies to improve freight intermodal connectivity; and best practices for improving the performance of the national multimodal freight network and rural and urban access to critical freight corridors.
Not later than 5 years after the date of completion of the first national multimodal freight strategic plan under subsection
(a)and every 5 years thereafter, the Secretary shall update and repost on the public website of the Department of Transportation a revised national freight strategic plan. .