Preserving and enhancing the efficiency of Oregon’s freight system is essential to supporting economic development and the quality of life in Oregon. The Oregon Freight Plan is a resource designed to guide freight-related operation, maintenance and investment decisions.  Freight mobility in Oregon is provided by a multimodal network that includes highways, local roads, railroads, airports, marine ports and pipelines. Oregon is the ninth most trade-dependent state in the nation illustrating the importance to the state’s economy of efficiently transporting Oregon products to world markets.
 
The purpose of the Oregon Freight Plan is to improve freight connections to local, state, tribal, regional, national and international markets with the goal of increasing trade-related jobs and income for Oregon workers and businesses.  The plan documents the economic importance of freight movement in Oregon, identifies transportation networks important to freight-dependent industries and recommends multimodal strategies to increase strategic freight system efficiency. The plan identifies, sixteen freight issues and strategies with action steps to address the issues. 
 

Adoption
The Oregon Transportation Commission adopted the Oregon Freight Plan on June 15, 2011. The Oregon Freight Plan is now an element of the Oregon Transportation Plan.
 
Copies of the plan:
 
Please download an electronic copy of the Executive Summary or the adopted Oregon Freight Plan.
　                      
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Copies of the plan are also available in printed form. For inquires and/orders call 503-986-3520 between 8:00 am and 5:00 pm., email Sharon Kautz or send written requests to the following address:
 

ODOT Freight Mobility Unit
555 13th Street NE, Suite 2
Salem, OR 97301-4178
 

• Comments received on the Draft Plan and ODOT Responses
• List of Outreach Meetings
• 2011 Public Outreach Presentation 
• Outreach Maps 
  

• Oregon Freight Plan Modeling Analysis, August 2010 
• Freight and Climate Change: Background Paper for the Oregon Freight Plan, June 2010 
• Oregon's Freight Profile, June 1, 2010 
• Oregon Commodity Flow Forecast, October 14, 2009 
• Federal, State and Local Freight Regulations, October 2009 
• Effects of Freight Regulations and Policies on Freight Mobility in Oregon, October 2009 
• Existing and Potential Interagency Coordination Technical Memo, October 2009 
• Relationship of Freight Transportation to Economic Development, June 24, 2009 
• Review and Analysis of Economic Forecasts, June 12, 2009 
• Inventory of Oregon Freight Infrastructure 

• Oregon Freight Rail System, April 2010 
• Highway Segment Designations 

The Freight Plan Steering Committee served an advisory role by evaluating technical information, reviewing freight model projections, and guiding plan development. 
 
The Steering Committee appointed three working groups from its membership—the Freight Infrastructure and Traffic Issues Working Group, Freight and the Economy Working Group, and Policy and Process Working Group.  
 

The Freight Plan Steering Committee served an advisory role by evaluating technical information, reviewing freight model projections, and guiding plan development. 
 

Public Consultation
The Oregon Freight Plan was available online for public comment from December 16, 2010 through May 19, 2011. ODOT staff conducted 17 public meetings across Oregon to discuss draft plan contents, answer citizen questions and hear feedback with about 300 participants attending. ODOT received  written comments resulting in changes to the plan considered by the Oregon Transportation Commission and incorporated into the Adopted Oregon Freight Plan (see link above).  Printed copies of the Adopted Oregon Freight Plan and two previous draft plan versions are available upon request by contacting 503-986-3520 between 8:00 am – 5:00 pm, email Sharon Kautz or send written requests to the following address:
 
ODOT Freight Mobility Unit
555 13^th Street NE, Suite 2
Salem, OR 97301-4178