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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If you want to support OTA's mission of bringing a collaborative approach to surface freight transportation planning, there are a variety of ways you can get involved.

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Principles

The following principles guide all aspects of OnTrackAmerica—its goals, its operations, and its outcomes.

Business as a Patriotic Endeavor
OnTrackAmerica supports our effective use of this highly efficient transport mode. Sending goods by rail protects us from environmental degradation, decreases traffic congestion, and minimizes the use of natural resources.

Objectivity
OnTrackAmerica will not accept financial sponsorships that restrict attention to individual business agendas over common interests.

Inclusivity
OnTrackAmerica will invite representation from all involved stakeholder groups.

Balance
OnTrackAmerica facilitates dialogues wherein all participants’ perspectives are appreciated.

Nonpartisanship
OnTrackAmerica will not contribute to political campaigns, thereby maintaining the autonomy and integrity of a nonpartisan entity.

Common Interests
OnTrackAmerica will work to create better policy, programs, and planning whereby funding of individual projects is in concert with the advancement of system-wide productivity.

Coordination and Collaboration
OnTrackAmerica will advance the integration of collaboration with competition. “Effective service to the marketplace” is a more productive public policy principle than “maximizing competition.”

Whole System Growth
OnTrackAmerica believes that growing profitable transportation businesses within an effective transportation system is enhanced by serving the smallest as well as the largest transportation users and providers. OnTrackAmerica supports the utilization of all transport modes within a sound multimodal system.