Overall Work Program - Pima Association of Governments

Transportation Planning
53 – Intermodal and Goods Movement Planning, including Freight and Border
Crossings
Purpose:
Enhance freight and intermodal (rail, air) transportation planning, efficiency and safety by improving
coordination and developing partnerships with regional stakeholders, and in close cooperation with the
regional inland port and transportation initiative of the region’s economic development agency, Tucson
Regional Economic Opportunities (TREO). Plan for growth in travel and trade between the United States and
Mexico, recognizing that adequately sized, safe and efficient border crossings are key contributors to the
nation's economic health. Facilitate efficient, safe, secure reliable and economical cross-border movement of
people and goods.
Tasks:
Freight and Intermodal Systems Planning
• Develop methods, data and analytical techniques to assess intermodal and multi-modal needs,
performance, and funding options.
• Update the regional Intermodal Management System Plan, as needed.
• Support activities of the regional Freight & Logistics Advisory Task Force housed at TREO.
• Coordinate regional stakeholders and Union Pacific Railroad on project planning and activities
associated with roadway-rail safety and efficiency.
• Maintain maps of region’s rail facilities and document estimated usage levels.
• Develop methods, data and analytical techniques to assess multi-modal needs, performance and
funding options.
• Explore opportunities that support better travel, mobility and freight movement along I-10, one of six
federally designated “Corridors of the Future.”
• Assess and identify land corridors that could be key to creating, maintaining, and enhancing regional
and interregional, intermodal and freight transportation connectivity, as well as to enhance global
competitiveness within the region.
• Support logistics education and workforce development institutions in southern Arizona to improve
mobility, safety and security related to freight movements.
• Support for state’s Aerospace and Defense Supply Chain website.
Border Planning
• Plan for growth in travel and trade between the United States and Mexico, recognizing that adequately
sized, safe and efficient border crossings are key contributors to the nation's economic health.
• Support strategies to share technologies, streamline the movement of cargo trucks across borders,
adopt innovative tools to plan border-crossing improvements, create frameworks that enable key
technologies to work together, and measure success in achieving objectives in global connectivity.
• Support and assistance for Arizona-Sonora Border Master Plan.
• Support and assistance, as appropriate, for Arizona-Mexico Commission.
Deliverables:
Regional Intermodal Management Plan (IMS) June 2013
Data for State’s Aerospace and Defense Supply Chain website
As needed
Pima Association of Governments 27 June 28, 2012