U.S. DOT Intermodal Freight Technology Working Group (IFTWG)

U.S. DOT Intermodal Freight Technology Working Group (IFTWG)

CURRENT PROJECTS

Cross-Town Improvement Project (C-TIP)

The movement of intermodal freight within the U.S. often requires the use of multiple truck/drayage moves in addition to the primary movement by rail or ship. The truck moves are often short, cross-town trips in or near metropolitan areas where freight terminals or warehousing and distribution facilities are located. C-TIP is a five part pilot demonstration that seeks to provide a sustainable solution to cross-town intermodal interchange issues. Fundamentally, the project consists of an integrated set of solutions that are aimed at removing inefficiencies by more closely linking operations among stakeholders, and enabling transportation providers with support tools that facilitate more informed operational decisions.

A Concept of Operations for the C-TIP Initiative has been completed on March 31, 2007 by the FHWA, and can be obtained by clicking here. This document describes the goals and objectives of the project, and describes how a deployed system would work.

February 8, 2007
Cross-Town Improvement Project Meeting

Minutes of meeting, Kansas City, Missouri

Click here to view the presentation from the meeting.


Columbus Electronic Freight Management Project (CEFM)

The CEFM project is a deployment test within the Electronic Freight Management (EFM) program that implements all the components of the Freight Information Highway (FIH) necessary to support a select international, truck-air-truck supply chain being utilized by the Limited Brands company.


Electronic Freight Management (EFM)

EFM is a USDOT R & D program that promotes and evaluates innovative e-business concepts, enabling process coordination and information sharing for supply chain freight partners through public-private collaboration.


Freight Information Highway (FIH)

The FIH is an innovative, non-proprietary standards-based architectural specification that defines a service-oriented architecture to support business process coordination and secure real-time data exchange.