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Cook County Releases Economic Development Agenda
On April 4, 2013, Cook County released an economic development agenda, Partnering for Prosperity . Eight of the nine agenda strategies directly align with GO TO 2040 recommendations. The following Policy Update provides a brief overview of the agenda, which addresses the county’s role in the metropolitan Chicago economy, and describes the many areas in which Partnering for...
National Freight Policy in MAP-21
In some respects, the two-year transportation reauthorization bill, Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21 st Century ( MAP-21 ), represents a significant departure from previous federal transportation bills and does more to recognize freight needs than the law’s antecedents. Since the adoption of SAFETEA-LU, the last major transportation reauthorization bill, stakeholders across the country...
Metropolitan Chicago’s Freight Cluster Part 2, Innovation
Note: This is the second in a three-part Policy Updates series on Metropolitan Chicago’s Freight Cluster: A Drill-Down Report on Infrastructure, Innovation, and Workforce: Metropolitan Chicago's Freight Cluster Part 1, Infrastructure Metropolitan Chicago's Freight Cluser Part 2, Innovation Metropolitan Chicago's Freight Cluster Part 3, Workforce ...
Metropolitan Chicago’s Freight Cluster Part 1, Infrastructure
Note: This is the first in a three-part Policy Updates series on Metropolitan Chicago’s Freight Cluster: A Drill-Down Report on Infrastructure, Innovation, and Workforce: Metropolitan Chicago's Freight Cluster Part 1, Infrastructure Metropolitan Chicago's Freight Cluser Part 2, Innovation Metropolitan Chicago's Freight Cluster Part 3, Workforce Between...
Freight Drill-Down Analyzes Regional Infrastructure, Innovation, and Workforce
GO TO 2040 calls for strategically organizing the region around its existing and emerging clusters of specialization to better compete in the national and international marketplace. The plan directs CMAP, with the support of its partners, to perform “drill-down” analyses into specific industry clusters, including freight, advanced manufacturing, and biotech/biomed. CMAP has...
MAP-21 -- Major Programmatic and Policy Changes
The long-awaited transportation reauthorization bill Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21 st Century Act (MAP-21) passed the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives on June 29, 2012. The full text and summary document of the conference report are available on-line. The following Policy Update details some of the specific programmatic and policy areas of the bill and...
Preview -- Freight Cluster Drill-Down
Nurturing the region’s industry clusters is one of the main recommendations from the Human Capital chapter of GO TO 2040 . The plan directs CMAP, with the support of its partners, to perform “drill-down” analyses into specific established industry clusters, including freight, advanced manufacturing, and biotech/biomed, to better understand them. CMAP is focusing on freight as...
CREATE Year in Review newsletter
Metropolitan Chicago’s freight system links the region’s industries and consumers to global markets. Highways, railroads, waterways, and airports all provide important connections to the world. Yet each of these modes of transport is intertwined with the livability of the region. Therefore, planning for an efficient, regional, multimodal freight system is a key priority of ...
Freight and Logistics Industry Health in Illinois Scores an "A"
GO TO 2040 places a strong emphasis on the region’s industry clusters -- firms that share common resources and technologies and depend on a similar labor pool and institutions. Clusters provide a substantial amount of the “value added” that the Chicago region brings to the economies of the Midwest, the nation, and the world. GO TO 2040 recommends that the region nurture its...
Legislative Successes -- Freight and Public-Private Partnerships
Two significant bills supported by CMAP passed both houses of the General Assembly. The Freight Mobility Plan Act will support freight planning by assessing the state's current system. And the Public-Private Partnerships for Transportation Act will give Illinois the authority to enter into public-private agreements for transportation investments. Both bills await Governor Pat Quinn's action.
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The LTA home page has details of activities sponsored by the HUD Sustainable Communities grant to CMAP for support of community projects that advance the principles of GO TO 2040. In our second call for projects through the Local Technical Assistance (LTA) program, CMAP received over 100 proposals from more than 80 applicants. View the press release and summary of selected projects.
An interactive map of local case studies describes projects and people that exemplify the goals and objectives of GO TO 2040.
CMAP's Local Ordinances and Toolkits program provides resources to municipalities interested in pursuing policies that are aligned with GO TO 2040 recommendations.
