About Us
OnTrackNorthAmerica is committed to advancing freight railroads and other critical industrial systems by demonstrating that collaboration across all stakeholder groups is more productive than competition. Since our founding in 2007, we have convened stakeholders and organizations to design and implement profitable and sustainable industrial activities.
Our Core Principles
The value and power of our work rest on an unusually responsible set of ethics and principles that focus our attention on the long-term pragmatic interests of our planet and future generations.
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Our Leadership
Our Accomplishments
OTNA has developed state and regional plans, tools, analyses, and paradigms that support these values.
- In 2023, OTNA led a four-county stakeholder activity in New Mexico in the aftermath of a 350,000-acre forest fire that resulted in the New Mexico Forestry Business Plan.
- In 2021, OTNA convened hundreds of transportation stakeholders to create Nevada’s 2021 State Rail Plan, a new whole-systems paradigm for statewide rail-enabled economic development.
- On December 11, 2008, OTNA gathered industry and government leaders in the U.S. Capitol to develop a new collaborative framework for freight rail transportation efficiency.
Our Partners
Barbara L. Gray, Penn State University, Center for Research in Conflict and Negotiation
Center for Freight Transportation and Efficient & Resilient Supply Chains
Julie Drzymalski, Temple University, Industrial & Systems Engineering