Continental Action Plan for Sustainable Industry

Introduction

CAPSI is the strategic thinking community that designs the Industrial Systems Initiatives such as VitalRail and companion IntelliConference Series. It is an element of OnTrackNorthAmerica.

Scope What industrial systems do we want CAPSI to address?

Agriculture

• Inputs
  • Land use
  • Soil
  • Water
  • Enhancements
• Processing
• Outputs
  • Food
  • Energy
  • Biomass

Forestry

• North American Sustainable Forestry Business Plan
  • Wood
  • Pulp
  • Paper

Mining

• Minerals
  • RE-STEM, Rail Enabled Sustainable Transportation of Essential 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
• Metals
• Plastics
• Paper

Construction

• Factories
• Warehouses
• Powerplants
• Mechanical and structural components

Energy

• RE-POWER, Rail Enabled Power Distribution

Transportation

• Rail
  • VitalRail, Driving a Sustainable Economy
• Truck
• Air
• Ports
• Ocean
• River Barge
• Pipelines

Waste

• Industrial
• Commercial
• Municipal
  • Glass
    • RE-GLASS, Rail Enabled Glass Logistics and Sustainable Supply
• Construction and demolition waste
• Agricultural
• Wood waste

When deciding how best to streamline an existing industrial system, stakeholders will address the elements involved in or affected by that system:

Natural Resources

• 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?

What do stakeholders want to add to the CAPSI Ethics and Principles?

How do stakeholders address goals?

Staff Organizers, Facilitators and Participating Stakeholders use IntelliConferences and IntelliSynthesis to uncover breakthrough information on goals. IntelliConference Series are specific synchronous and asynchronous venues where stakeholders and staff meet to work.

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 owners?
• 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 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 How de 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 also go to the GIS Planning Tools page for related information

Local

Potential

• OnTrackPhiladelphia

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

Canada-13

Alberta

British Columbia

Manitoba

New Brunswick

Newfoundland and Labrador

Northwest Territories

Nova Scotia

Nunavut

Ontario

Prince Edward Island

Quebec

Saskatchewan

Yukon

United States-50

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

Mexico-32

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

January 2025 - Selected stakeholder review

April 22, 2025 - CAPSI public launch

May 2025 - VitalRail Launch

April 2026 - Continental Agreement on Principles, Goals, Protocols, and Outcomes

April 2027 - All CAPSI Industrial Systems Initiatives in gear

CAPSI FAQs

What is the distinction between CAPSI and OnTrackNorthAmerica? OTNA produces Industrial Systems Initiatives such as VitalRail and companion IntelliConference Series. CAPSI is the strategic thinking community that designs the work.