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
Our work is grounded in an unusually responsible set of ethics and principles that prioritize the long-term 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 process in New Mexico following a 350,000-acre forest fire, which resulted in the development of the New Mexico Forestry Business Plan.
- In 2021, OTNA convened hundreds of transportation stakeholders to create Nevada’s 2021 State Rail Plan, a new paradigm for statewide rail-enabled economic development.
- On December 11, 2008, OTNA convened industry and government leaders at the U.S. Capitol to develop a new collaborative framework for enhancing the efficiency of freight rail transportation.
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