Texas Freight Advisory Committee
Advisory committees
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
| Date | Location | Files |
| 05/07/2025 | TxDOT Stassney Campus auditorium |
| Date | Location | Files |
| 04/10/2024 | TxDOT Stassney Campus auditorium |
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| 07/24/2024 | Circle T Ranch |
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| 11/12/2024 | Dewitt C. Greer Building |
| Date | Location | Files |
| 01/18/2023 | TxDOT Greer Building, 125 E. 11th St. Austin, TX 78701 |
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| 06/22/2023 | TxDOT Stassney Campus auditorium, 6230 E. Stassney Ln. Austin, TX 78744 |
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| 11/30/2023 | TxDOT Greer Building, 125 E. 11th St. Austin, TX 78701 |
| Date | Location | Files |
| 11/04/22 | TxDOT Greer Building, 125 E. 11th St. Austin, TX 78701 |
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| 10/05/22 | TxDOT Greer Building, 125 E. 11th St. Austin, TX 78701 |
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| 08/22/22 | TxDOT Greer Building, 125 E. 11th St. Austin, TX 78701 |
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| 07/20/22 | TxDOT Greer Building, 125 E. 11th St. Austin, TX 78701 |
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| 04/06/22 | Virtual | |
| 02/02/22 | Virtual |
| Date | Location | Files |
|---|---|---|
| 11/10/21 8 a.m. |
Virtual | |
| 08/24/21 8 a.m. |
Virtual | |
| 04/20/21 8 a.m. |
Virtual |
| Date | Location | Files |
| 11/05/20 8 a.m. | Virtual | |
| 09/03/20 8 a.m. | Virtual | |
| 03/31/20 8 a.m. | Virtual |
| Name | Organization |
| Ed Emmett - Chair | Rice University |
| Adriana Cruz | Office of the Governor |
| Brenda Gunter | City of San Angelo |
| Charlie Jenkins | Port of Houston |
| Charlie Leal | Texas Farm Bureau |
| Clint Schelbitzki | Union Pacific Railroad |
| Gerry Schwebel | IBC |
| Isaac Tawil | McAllen Economic Development group |
| 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 |
| Rolando Ortiz | Killam Development, Ltd. |
| Russell Laughlin | Hillwood |
| Ryan Martin | LDR Partners, LP |
| 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 |
| Name | Organization |
|---|---|
| [Commissioner(s)] | Texas Transportation Commission |
| Armando "Mando" Martinez | Texas House of Representatives |
| Brenda Gunter | City of San Angelo |
| Cameron Walker | Permian Basin MPO |
| Danny Smith | UPS |
| John LaRue | Port of Corpus Christi Authority |
| Phyllis Saathoff | Port Freeport |
| Sergio Muñoz | Texas House of Representatives |
| Victor Treviño | City of Laredo |