{"id":26,"date":"2010-03-29T12:44:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-29T17:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mississippivalleyfreight.org\/?page_id=26"},"modified":"2018-11-29T18:55:55","modified_gmt":"2018-11-29T18:55:55","slug":"moa","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wwwtest.midamericafreight.org\/index.php\/about\/moa\/","title":{"rendered":"Memorandum of Understanding"},"content":{"rendered":"

WHEREAS, the economic health of our region is dependent upon efficient movement of products;<\/p>\n

WHEREAS, we are faced with growing congestion on our air, highway, rail, and water transportation systems;<\/p>\n

WHEREAS, our international competitors are eliminating the traditional advantage that transportation has given the region in trade;<\/p>\n

WHEREAS, freight shipments move across state and national boundaries making us mutually dependent upon our transportation systems infrastructure;<\/p>\n

WHEREAS, the trade between the states in the region is important for our economic well being;<\/p>\n

WHEREAS, action is required to ensure that our transportation systems are adequate to move products of the region; and<\/p>\n

WHEREAS, SAFETEA-LU created a freight transportation center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison which has been the lead institution in data collection, identifying issues, and facilitating dialog among the states in the upper Midwest.<\/p>\n

THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the member states of the Mississippi Valley Conference agree to:<\/p>\n

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  1. Establish a Mississippi Valley Freight Coalition to cooperate in the planning,operation, preservation, and improvement of transportation system infrastructure in the region.<\/li>\n
  2. Cooperate in efforts to engage the public and private sectors in the process for improving the efficiency of the freight transportation systems in the region.<\/li>\n
  3. Establish a customer committee made up of freight carriers, shippers, third party providers and affiliated organization representatives to provide input to the Coalition.<\/li>\n
  4. Establish a technical advisory\/resource group made up of experts in the fields of freight operations and intermodal transportation to propose, recommend for approval by the executive committee, and implement a plan of action for improving the regional freight transportation systems.<\/li>\n
  5. Establish an executive committee made up of state Department of Transportation CEOs, or their designees, to guide regional cooperative efforts and approve a plan of action to be implemented by the technical committee.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    For more information, download the complete\u00a0Memorandum of Understanding<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    WHEREAS, the economic health of our region is dependent upon efficient movement of products; WHEREAS, we are faced with growing congestion on our air, highway, rail, and water transportation systems; WHEREAS, our international competitors are eliminating the traditional advantage that transportation has given the region in trade; WHEREAS, freight shipments move across state and national […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":369,"menu_order":400,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-26","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwtest.midamericafreight.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwtest.midamericafreight.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwtest.midamericafreight.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwtest.midamericafreight.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwtest.midamericafreight.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wwwtest.midamericafreight.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9904,"href":"https:\/\/wwwtest.midamericafreight.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26\/revisions\/9904"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwtest.midamericafreight.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwtest.midamericafreight.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}