Continental Action Plan for Sustainable Industry

From OnTrackNorthAmerica

CAPSI Scope IntelliConference: Which industrial systems do we want CAPSI to address?

Agriculture

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

Forestry

Mining

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

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

CAPSI Design IntelliConference: What design criteria do we want to set for CAPSI Action Plans?

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

What Goals do stakeholders want to set?

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?

CAPSI Public-Private Planning IntelliConference: 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?

CAPSI Capital Deployment IntelliConference: 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?

What are the geographic planning regions of CAPSI?

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.

Local

Potential
  • OnTrackPhiladelphia
In Development
In Action

Corridor

Potential
In Development
  • Dallas to Texarkana I30 Corridor Strategy
  • San Francisco Bay to Salt Lake City I80 Corridor Strategy
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

What is the timeline for CAPSI?

January 2025 - Selected stakeholder review

April 22, 2025 - CAPSI public launch

May 2025 - RE-SEED Launch (Rail Enabled Sustainable Environment and Economic Development)

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

April 2027 - All CAPSI Industrial Systems Initiatives in gear