ITS America Response to USDOT National Freight Strategic Plan RFI

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September 8, 2025

The Intelligent Transportation Society of America (ITS America) is grateful for the opportunity to respond to the U.S. Department of Transportation’s (Department) Request for Information on a National Freight Strategic Plan 2025 Update. The National Freight Strategic Plan (Plan or NFSP) is a vital tool to help shape national, state, and regional freight priorities, and this update to the Plan presents an important opportunity to embrace innovative technologies that help strengthen the movement of multimodal freight across the United States.

Our recommendations to the 2025 Plan emphasize the need to embrace an innovation-centric approach to improving the safety, efficiency, and reliability of our national freight system, while investing in and prioritizing standardized, interoperable, and complementary technology tools for public agencies across the country.

Let’s Transform the Future Together.

Technology evolves faster than we can imagine the future. Rapidly evolving transportation innovations are being developed and deployed that promise to entirely reshape the way our transportation network operates, facilitating vast improvements to transportation safety and overall mobility. The promise of these innovations is apparent, but the deployment and application of these technologies is not without challenges. While technology disrupts the transportation ecosystem with new innovations and ideas, government, communities, private companies, and researchers must race to catch up to and contend with ideas never thought possible. How do we accelerate change and safely embrace new technology while promoting collaboration across industry to advance shared societal goals? Through nonprofits like the Intelligent Transportation Society of America (ITS America).

ITS America and its members have been at the center of these innovations, advocating for the future of transportation to be safe, smart, and connected.

Join us.

As advocates for transportation innovation throughout the world’s largest transportation network, ITS America’s public, private and academic members are dedicated to championing smart mobility strategies to ensure safe and thriving communities.
Ramin Massoumi, Global Solutions Director – Mobility, arcadis
Private companies, public agencies and academic institutions committed to influencing the future of intelligent transportation come together at ITS America. Every day, our members advance technology solutions that save lives and improve mobility across the country – in cities, suburbs, and rural communities.
Malcolm Dougherty, National Practice Executive, Transportation, Michael Baker International
At ITS America, our public, private and academic sector members are committed to deploying intelligent transportation technologies to save lives and improve mobility on our nation’s roads. While transportation constantly evolves, we will do all we can to ensure it continues to be the engine that drives our nation’s economy and contributes to improving our quality of life.
Carlos Braceras, Director, Utah Department of Transportation

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