About Us
OTNA’s mission is to demonstrate that collaboration, not competition, should drive commerce and governance. Since 1995, we have focused on freight railroads and industrial systems, developing collaborative approaches that consistently deliver superior productivity, profitability, and sustainability. Through this work, we create replicable models of cooperation-based economic activity.
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