OTPa Freight System Action Plan

OnTrackPennsylvania represents a shift—from discussing the need for coordinated transportation planning—to actually designing, committing to, and implementing an optimal freight transportation Action Plan. This Action Plan will be built the only way it can for a plan this important to work—by those needed to implement the plan collaborating alongside all those who are affected by it, i.e. transportation providers, shippers, developers, planners, suppliers, funders, and citizens.

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GAO 09 219: Report on Importance of Federal Role & Criteria-Based Selection Process for Infrastructure Programs

Date:

02/2009

A critique of 3 federal funding programs: Projects of Regional & National Significance, National Corridor Infrastructure Improvement Program, and Coordinated Border Infrastructure program.

pp. 25

Step 8

"Criteria Based Competition and a More Clearly Defined Federal Role in Transportation May Provide the Best Opportunity to Enhance These Programs" This section of the report summarizes what was found in other GAO reports stating that the DOT establish a clear role for stakeholders, the fed's and source of funding for projects that are proposed to improve existing freight issues. "...we have found that having more federal programs operate competitively could help tie funds to performance."

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