Quetica is leading the development of a regional freight plan for the Metropolitan Council of Governments for the Fargo-Moorhead Region, in order to guide regional freight investments that will support the safety, social equity, economic productivity, sustainability and livable community goals of the agency. This planning effort is expected to generate performance metrics that will help with project prioritization and selection, and allow the agency to monitor the performance of freight networks in the region.
The work plan includes an extensive outreach program with private sector stakeholders in the region; a customized one-day training workshop for agency staff, partner planning agencies, and interested stakeholders covering freight data, and freight provisions in MAP-21 and the FAST Act; data analysis to examine the regional economy in the context of the national and global economies; a commodity profile to explore the region’s key product movements and markets, and the development of a freight performance measures matrix.
