Continental Action Plans for Sustainable Industry
Contents
- 1 This is where the work begins!
- 1.1 Introduction
- 1.2 Scope What industrial systems do we want CAPSI to address?
- 1.3 Design What design criteria do we want to set for CAPSI?
- 1.4 Public-Private Planning
- 1.5 Capital Deployment
- 1.6 Geographic Planning Regions
- 1.7 Timeline
- 1.8 CAPSI FAQs
This is where the work begins!
Introduction
You have entered the work side of CAPSI. When you register as a Stakeholder on the Participation Options page you can join the Team in designing new Industry Action Plans (IAP) or work directly on our first initiative, VitalRail.
Scope What industrial systems do we want CAPSI to address?
Agriculture
- Inputs
- Land use
- Soil
- Water
- Enhancements
- Processing
- Outputs
- Food
- Energy
- Nutrient material
Forestry
- North American Sustainable Forestry Business Plan
- Wood
- Pulp
- Paper
Mining
- Minerals
- Metals
- Coal
- Oil and Gas
Manufacturing
- Metals
- Chemicals
- Equipment
- Textiles
Materials
- Containers and Packaging
- Construction Materials
- Cement and Aggregates
- RE-CARD, Cement and Aggregates Regional Distribution
- Refractory
- Lumber
- Cement and Aggregates
- Metals
- Plastics
- Paper
Construction
- Factories
- Warehouses
- Powerplants
- Mechanical and structural components
Energy
- RE-POWER, Rail Enabled Power Distribution
Transportation
- Rail
- Truck
- Air
- Ports
- Ocean
- River Barge
- Pipelines
Waste
- Industrial
- Commercial
- Municipal
- Glass
- RE-GLASS, Rail Enabled Glass Logistics and Sustainable Supply
- Glass
- Construction and demolition waste
- Agricultural
- Wood waste
Natural Resources
When deciding how best to streamline an existing industrial system, stakeholders must evaluate all elements within and affected by that system.
- Water
- Air
- Land
- FTLUS, Freight Transportation Land Use Strategy
- RE-BAR, Rail Enabled Brownfield Asset Redevelopment
Design What design criteria do we want to set for CAPSI?
Staff Organizers, Facilitators and Participating Stakeholders use IntelliConferences and IntelliSynthesis to uncover breakthrough information on goals and make decisions about next steps. If you would like to help us improve our methods and processes or learn more, and are not yet a registered visitor or registered stakeholder, please visit the the Participation Options.
If you are already registered you can use the Discussion Tab on this page to make your comments on the following questions. Staff will follow-up with you ASAP.
- What do stakeholders want to add to the CAPSI Ethics and Principles?
- How do you think stakeholders should address CAPSI and Industry Action Plan goals?
- What Planning Protocols do stakeholders agree on?
- What Outcomes do stakeholders envision?
- What outcomes do we want for the environment?
- What outcomes do we want for citizens?
- What outcomes do we want for business?
- What outcomes do we want for investors?
- What resources does society need and want to optimize?
- What goods does society need and want to have available?
- What Measures of progress do stakeholders want to apply?
Public-Private Planning
Providing your input to these questions will be very valuable to all participants. You can answer questions anonymously by sending staff an email. See the Participation Options page.
- How do we want planning to support sustainable industrial systems?
- What benefits do stakeholders want Collaborative Industrial Optimization to deliver?
- How do we want public-sector economic development to contribute to sustainable industrial systems?
- How do we want private-sector commercial activity to align with sustainable industrial systems?
- How do we want land use decisions to contribute to sustainable industrial systems?
- How do we want transportation planning to evolve to support sustainable industrial systems?
- How can academic and commercial research support sustainable industrial systems?
- What factors do we want to include in assessing the full impact of industrial systems?
- How must interactions among public and private sector entities evolve to support systemwide sustainability?
Capital Deployment
As we address these broader questions we drill down into more detailed questions.
- How do we want capital deployment to support sustainable industrial systems?
- How do we want investors’ decisions on capital deployment to evolve?
- How do we want business stakeholders’ approach to capital deployment to evolve?
- How do we want lenders’ approach to capital deployment to evolve?
- How do we want public agencies’ approach to capital deployment to evolve?
- What advantages will Sustainable Systems Capitalization deliver?
Geographic Planning Regions
The geography of CAPSI plans is local, corridor, state/province, regional/multi-state, national, and continental. Initiatives are cataloged here as they are conceived and advanced by stakeholder groups. You can go to the GIS Planning Tools page for related information.
Local
Potential
- OnTrackPhiladelphia
- OnTrackNevada
- OnTrackPennsylvania
In Development
In Action
Corridor
Potential
In Development
- Dallas to Texarkana I30 Corridor Strategy
- San Francisco Bay ports to Salt Lake City I80 Corridor Strategy
- San Pedro Bay ports to Salt Lake City I15 Corridor
In Action
State/Province
Potential
| Alberta |
| British Columbia |
| Manitoba |
| New Brunswick |
| Newfoundland and Labrador |
| Northwest Territories |
| Nova Scotia |
| Nunavut |
| Ontario |
| Prince Edward Island |
| Quebec |
| Saskatchewan |
| Yukon |
| Alabama |
| Alaska |
| Arizona |
| Arkansas |
| California |
| Colorado |
| Connecticut |
| Delaware |
| Florida |
| Georgia |
| Hawaii |
| Idaho |
| Illinois |
| Indiana |
| Iowa |
| Kansas |
| Kentucky |
| Louisiana |
| Maine |
| Maryland |
| Massachusetts |
| Michigan |
| Minnesota |
| Mississippi |
| Missouri |
| Montana |
| Nebraska |
| Nevada |
| New Hampshire |
| New Jersey |
| New Mexico |
| New York |
| North Carolina |
| North Dakota |
| Ohio |
| Oklahoma |
| Oregon |
| Pennsylvania |
| Rhode Island |
| South Carolina |
| South Dakota |
| Tennessee |
| Texas |
| Utah |
| Vermont |
| Virginia |
| Washington |
| West Virginia |
| Wisconsin |
| Wyoming |
| Aguascalientes |
| Baja California |
| Baja California Sur |
| Campeche |
| Chiapas |
| Chihuahua |
| Coahuila |
| Colima |
| Durango |
| Guanajuato |
| Guerrero |
| Hidalgo |
| Jalisco |
| México |
| México City |
| Michoacán |
| Morelos |
| Nayarit |
| Nuevo León |
| Puebla |
| Oaxaca |
| Querétaro |
| Quintana Roo |
| San Luis Potosí |
| Sinaloa |
| Sonora |
| Tabasco |
| Tamaulipas |
| Tlaxcala |
| Veracruz |
| Yucatán |
| Zacatecas |
In Development
- OnTrackNevada
- OnTrackPennsylvania
In Action
Regional/Multi-state
Potential
- Southeast Supply Chain Coalition
In Development
- Southwest Supply Chain Coalition
In Action
National
Potential
- OnTrackMexico
- OnTrackCanada
- OnTrackUS
In Development
In Action
Continental
- OnTrackNorthAmerica
Timeline
April 8, 2025 - CAPSI and VitalRail public introduction
May to July 2025 - VitalRail Launch
April 2026 - New Industry Action Plans launched
April 2027 - Continued launch of Industry Action Plans and introduction of new CAPSI collaboration tools and methods.
CAPSI FAQs
Introduction
If you have new questions and you are a registered Stakeholder or registered Participating Stakeholder, see Participation Options, please enter these on the Discussion Tab page at the top of this page.
Questions
- What is the distinction between CAPSI and OnTrackNorthAmerica? OTNA is the non-profit entity that operates CAPSI. OTNA staff produce Industry Action Plans such as VitalRail and companion IntelliConference Series. CAPSI is the strategic thinking community that designs the work. The site that contains progress on the work is called CAPSI.
