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| <center><span style="color:orange;"><h3>Where stakeholders in Canada, the United States, and Mexico redesign our industrial systems for sustainable life.</h3></span></center> | | = <center>Where stakeholders in Canada, the United States, and Mexico design sustainable industrial systems that work for everyone.</center> = |
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| OnTrackNorthAmerica has launched the Continental Action Plans for Sustainable Industry (CAPSI), a transformative initiative that unites professional stakeholders in redesigning industries to achieve both economic prosperity and environmental sustainability.
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| At the heart of CAPSI are our Industry Action Plans (IAPs), with VitalRail serving as our pioneering initiative. VitalRail focuses on optimizing railroad infrastructure as the backbone of an integrated, balanced multimodal transportation network.
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| | =====We have a challenge ahead of us.===== |
| | Our industrial systems are not optimized for sustainability or profitability. The truth is, neither marketplace dynamics nor vested interest lobbying lead to smart supply chains. From natural resources and agriculture to production, consumption, and recycling, our society can redesign its fragmented industrial systems. |
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| ===== Our Collaborative Approach ===== | | =====Why do we need to meet this head-on?===== |
| CAPSI's success relies on genuine collaboration across sectors. We employ a proven inquiry-based methodology that facilitates:
| | Civilization on a resource-limited planet cannot thrive without a new level of thinking, planning, and investing. Right now, we are missing out on crucial opportunities to improve efficiency, sustainability, and profits. |
| | =====How does OnTrackNorthAmerica address this problem?===== |
| | OnTrackNorthAmerica provides the forum and methodology for stakeholders to co-create smart policies, plans, and investments. Our approach advances profitable projects within integrated corridors, regions, and industrial systems. This wiki-based platform, powered by our IntelliConference® dialogue system, enables stakeholders to resolve long-standing issues and orchestrate progress—with particular focus on expanding freight rail service to key industries and transport modes. We invite you and all stakeholders across industry, government, and community to contribute to this collective intelligence. Join us in building commerce and industry that achieves long-lasting profitability, sustainability, and quality of life. |
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| * Comprehensive information gathering
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| * Innovative brainstorming
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| * Actionable decision-making among diverse stakeholder groups
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| Through this collaborative process, we address the fragmentation in our industrial systems—from natural resources and agriculture to production, distribution, consumption, and recycling.
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| ===== Leadership Experience ===== | | <div style="min-width:500; float:right; flex:1; padding-left:20px; padding-right:20px; border-left:medium solid #c8ccd1"> |
| OnTrackNorthAmerica brings over 30 years of infrastructure advisory expertise spanning 45 states and Canadian provinces. This extensive experience provides the foundation for our work in creating more sustainable, efficient industrial frameworks across North America.
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| | '''[[Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern Merger IntelliConference]]''' |
| | =====In-Gear Initiatives===== |
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| | =====Latest News===== |
| | Our founder, Michael Sussman, spoke at the Ottawa, CA gathering of [https://ciltna.com/ The Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport North America] and met with the Canadian government to discuss raising supply chain planning to the level of whole industrial systems. |
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| == What do we mean by industrial systems? == | | See [[Collaborative Industrial Optimization]]. |
| Industrial systems encompass the comprehensive network of commercial activities, policy frameworks, and planning processes that enable the delivery of materials and products essential for modern civilization. These systems extend far beyond manufacturing facilities to include:
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| * Resource extraction and processing
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| * Supply chain management and logistics
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| * Distribution networks and transportation infrastructure
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| * Consumer access and utilization
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| * End-of-life considerations including recycling, repurposing, and disposal
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| ===== The Interconnected Nature of Industry ===== | | ====<big>OnTrackNorthAmerica</big>==== |
| What distinguishes truly effective industrial systems is their connectivity. The interactions and transitions between facilities—the movement of materials, information, and energy across properties—often prove as critical as the operations within individual locations themselves.
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| These interconnections determine overall system efficiency, resilience, and environmental impact. By recognizing industrial systems as holistic networks rather than isolated facilities, we gain the perspective needed to optimize performance across economic, social, and ecological dimensions.<h2>What do we mean by redesign?</h2>
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| Redesigning industrial systems through our [[Collaborative Industrial Optimization]] framework transforms fragmented supply chains into cohesive, sustainable networks through a stakeholder-driven process that respects existing investments while boldly reimagining infrastructure placement and connectivity. This approach begins with establishing shared goals and performance metrics, then progresses to strategic reconfiguration—as demonstrated in our mineral supply chain work, where we optimize the positioning of extraction, manufacturing, and recycling facilities to maximize efficiency and minimize environmental impact. Beyond physical infrastructure, our redesign process addresses the crucial human dimension by creating compelling incentives that align individual and organizational success with system-wide sustainability, ensuring that technical solutions are supported by the social and behavioral changes needed for lasting transformation..
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| <h2>Who are the stakeholders?</h2> | | <big>'''1700 Sansom Street, Suite 701''' |
| You are the stakeholders. Forging sustainable industries demands the collective wisdom of stakeholders across North America's vast industrial ecosystem—from corporate executives and policy makers to community leaders and frontline workers whose lives are directly shaped by these systems. OnTrackNorthAmerica has meticulously identified over 32,000 stakeholders spanning our continent's industrial, political, and geographic landscape, yet we continuously expand this network to ensure truly comprehensive representation. Each Action Plan we develop actively recruits diverse voices from eight critical sectors: academia contributing research and innovation; advocacy groups championing environmental and social concerns; businesses providing market expertise; community representatives articulating local impacts; funders enabling implementation; government officials shaping policy frameworks; labor organizations protecting workforce interests; and media partners amplifying our collective vision—all working in concert to transform fragmented industrial systems into models of sustainable prosperity.
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| <h2>How do we work together as stakeholders?</h2>
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| At the heart of our collaborative approach lies the pioneering IntelliConference Series®, powered by our proprietary IntelliSynthesis® methodology—a revolutionary dialogue system designed to harmonize diverse perspectives from expansive stakeholder groups with remarkable efficiency. This carefully orchestrated process begins by assembling representatives from every sector within a given industrial ecosystem, each committing to engage with sequential rounds of strategically crafted questions that progressively deepen collective understanding. Our expert facilitation team distills these contributions into comprehensive digests that respect participants' time while preserving the full spectrum of insights, including valuable outlier perspectives that often catalyze breakthrough thinking. As shared understanding emerges, our process seamlessly transitions from exploratory dialogue to concrete action planning and decision-making, transforming diverse viewpoints into unified strategies for industrial transformation—a methodology refined through decades of implementation across North America's most complex industrial challenges.
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| <h2>What do we mean by sustainability?</h2>
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| Sustainability of life embodies the enduring, harmonious balance between economic prosperity, human well-being, and ecological vitality—a dynamic equilibrium where our economic systems generate prosperity while respecting planetary boundaries, human communities thrive with equitable access to resources and opportunities, and natural ecosystems maintain their regenerative capacity and biodiversity for generations to come.
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| <h2>What is a Continental Action Plan?</h2>
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| "Continental" encompasses the integrated economic region of Canada, the United States, and Mexico—nations already bound through intricate trade networks that stand to gain tremendous advantages through enhanced cross-border coordination and strategic alignment. Our Action Plans are deliberately crafted for specific industrial systems and geographic regions while maintaining vital connections to all related initiatives, creating a comprehensive continental framework rather than isolated solutions. Unlike conventional studies that often gather dust on shelves, our dynamic process generates immediate, tangible outcomes through ongoing stakeholder engagement and adaptive implementation strategies, ensuring that insights translate directly into practical actions that evolve with changing conditions and emerging opportunities across North America's diverse industrial landscape.</br>
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