Texas Freight Advisory Committee
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Texas Freight Advisory Committee

Mission

Advise TxDOT on freight issues, priorities, projects, and funding needs for freight improvements; and elevate freight transportation as a critical component of the state’s economic vitality, and competitiveness.

Goals

  • Ensure the participation of private sector freight stakeholders in TxDOT’s transportation planning process.
  • Ensure that freight transportation needs are addressed in TxDOT’s transportation planning, programming, investments, and implementation processes.
  • Provide input into the development of the Statewide Freight Plan.
  • Help TxDOT identify and target freight investments.
  • Assist TxDOT in prioritizing freight investments by identifying high-priority and strategic freight transportation projects that facilitate the safe and efficient movement of freight throughout the state.
  • Develop TxDOT’s Freight Transportation action items on key freight issues.

Schedule

2024

Date Location Files
04/10/2024

TxDOT Stassney Campus auditorium
6230 E. Stassney Ln.
Austin, TX 78744

07/24/2024

Circle T Ranch
2451 Westlake Parkway
Westlake, TX 76262

11/12/2024

Dewitt C. Greer Building
125 E. 11th St.
Austin, Texas 78701

Texas Freight Advisory Committee members

Name Organization
Ed Emmett - Chair Rice University
Adriana Cruz Office of the Governor
Brenda Gunter City of San Angelo
Charlie Leal Texas Farm Bureau
Clint Schelbitzki Union Pacific Railroad
Gerry Schwebel IBC
John Esparza Texas Trucking Association
Ken Becker Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association - OOIDA
Laura Freeland Southern Dallas County Inland Port Transportation Management Association
Lauren Garduno Ports to Plains Alliance
Lindsay Mullins BNSF
Matt Woodruff Kirby Corporation
Miriam Kotkowski TECMA Transportation Services
Paul Treangen TNW Corporation
Robert MacDonald TEMPO
Roger Guenther Port Houston
Rolando Ortiz Killam Development, Ltd.
Russell Laughlin Hillwood
Ryan Martin Evolve Houston
Sean Stibich Port of Victoria
Steven Schar  Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
Telco Garcia Mission Economic Development Corporation
Tiffany Melvin North American Strategy for Competitiveness
  McAllen Economic Development Corporation