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Minnesota Statewide Freight Plan: Enhancing Transportation Infrastructure for Efficient Freight Movement

The Minnesota Statewide Freight Plan aims to provide a comprehensive and integrated system of freight transportation, including highway, rail, water, air, cargo, and intermodal terminals. The plan focuses on improving safety, capacity, and access to statewide, national, and international markets.

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Minnesota Statewide Freight Plan: Enhancing Transportation Infrastructure for Efficient Freight Movement

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  1. Transportation Finance Advisory GroupMay 18, 2012Freight Rail and Ports/WaterwaysOffice of Freight & Commercial Vehicle OperationsMinnesota Department of Transportation

  2. Statewide Freight Policy “Provide an integrated system of freight transportation in Minnesota—highway, rail, water, air cargo and intermodal terminals—that offers safe, reliable, and competitive access to statewide, national and international markets.” Minnesota Statewide Freight Plan (2005)

  3. By Value By Tonnage Minnesota Freight Source: TRANSEARCH, 2007

  4. Freight System Assets

  5. MnDOT Freight Office Focus Areas Improve safety of the freight system for users and travelers • Reduce heavy truck-related crashes & fatalities • Reduce highway/rail grade crossings crashes & fatalities Preserve/improve freight capacity • Improve rail line track/structures • Improve port facilities Provide competitive freight access • Improve travel time/reduce delays • Improve intermodal connections

  6. Office of Freight & Commercial Vehicle OperationsPrograms and Activities • Highway/Rail Crossing Safety Improvement Projects • Support Trunk Hwy. Construction Projects Involving Rail • Minnesota Rail Service Improvement Program • Minnesota State Rail Bank Program • Rail Track Safety Inspection Program • Minnesota Port Development Assistance Program • Freight Planning--Statewide Freight Plan, State Rail Plan, Regional Freight Studies, MN Freight Advisory Comm.

  7. Office of Freight & Commercial Vehicle OperationsPrograms and Activities continued… • Motor Carrier Safety Performance Audits • Motor Carrier Credentials • Motor Carrier Safety Education • Highway HazMat Incident Response • HazMat Site/Vehicle Inspections • Oversize/Overweight Truck Permits

  8. OFCVO Funding, FYs 2012-13All dollars in millions • Notes: • Direct appropriations from Minnesota Session Laws of 2011, 1st Special Session, Chapter 3 • Federal funds from FY 2012-13 operating budget agency narrative for Transportation, + additional authority granted through Legislative Advisory Commission (LAC) request • Statutory and open appropriations from FY 2012-13 operating budget agency narrative for Transportation • Bond amounts from Chapter 293 (House File 1752)

  9. Minnesota’s Freight Rail System • Rail network — 4,631 track miles • 4 Class 1 Railroads (BNSF, CP, UP, CN) • 18 Short Line Railroads • 2 major intermodal container yards • 4500 public roadway crossings • 2500 private crossings 9

  10. Source: 2009 STB Waybill Sample Source: 2009 Surface Transportation Board Waybill Sample Rail Tonnage and Rank:Selected States

  11. Minnesota Rail Tonnage Source: American Association of Railroads

  12. Minnesota Rail Service Improvement Program • Purpose: preserve and enhance rail service & increase rail shipping • Established 30+ years ago • 10-yr., no-interest loans to shippers, railroads & county rail authorities • Focused primarily on Short Line RRs • Total investment = $34.6M; $100M leveraged • 260 projects completed

  13. MRSI Program Appropriations

  14. Rail Assistance Programs of Selected States

  15. Minnesota Commercial Navigation System • Ranked 20th in Statewide Tonnage Mississippi River System • Port of St. Paul (#75U.S. ports) • Ports of Minneapolis, Savage, Red Wing, Winona • 7 locks/dams in MN Great Lakes/St. Lawrence Seaway • Port of Duluth-Superior (# 1lake port, #18 US ports) • Ports of Two Harbors (#42), Silver Bay (#66), Taconite Harbor

  16. Source: MN Port Terminals as reported to MnDOT Port Tonnage (Millions) Note: Includes Superior. WI

  17. Provides grants to public ports for infrastructure improvement • Maximum state match of 80% and local minimum of 20% • $24 million appropriated from 1996 to 2012 • 37 projects such as: • Dredging in the dock areas • Dock wall reconstruction • Building rehabilitation • Improving road and rail access MN Port DevelopmentAssistance Program

  18. MN Port Development Appropriations

  19. Port Assistance Programs of Selected States

  20. Transportation Finance Advisory GroupMay 18, 2012Freight Rail and Ports/WaterwaysBill Gardner, DirectorOffice of Freight & Commercial Vehicle OperationsMinnesota Department of Transportation

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