Multimodal Freight Network

Freight movement

Freight Summit

Freight Network

Resources

Contacts

The Wisconsin Department of Transportation's Multimodal Freight Network is composed of highways, local roads, rail lines, ports and airports. The network identifies the role of the different transportation facilities in shipping freight to and from Wisconsin. The network will help prioritize Wisconsin's freight transportation improvement activities in the future.

The Multimodal Freight Network builds upon the department's previously-established priorities for highways, railroads, airports and water ports - as articulated in Connections 2030 - the state's long-range multimodal transportation plan.

The network is one of several WisDOT efforts that feed into the Freight Mobility Action Agenda , the 1-5 year approach for statewide freight programming, prioritization and policy. The agenda was introduced at the Governor's Freight Industry Summit in 2011.

The freight network is displayed in the following draft maps.

Maps

Commodity profiles and industry maps

Commodity profiles were created utilizing WisDOT's commodity flow database (TRANSEARCH). These profiles analyze many of the state's important commodities and indicate their origins and destinations.

WisDOT also created industry maps showing the location of the state's largest shippers and receivers, along with the major highways used for the shipment of the commodities. The sources of data for the maps are WisDOT's commodity flow database and the IHS Freight Finder database.

The following documents are in Adobe PDF format.