Railroads, Collaboration, and a World That Works for Everyone

Introducing CAPSI, the Continental Action Plan for Sustainable Industry, where stakeholders create connected industrial systems and communities

CAPSI makes that possible.

OnTrackNorthAmerica engages stakeholders to advance the economic and environmental sustainability of whole supply chains. CAPSI utilizes MediaWiki, the same software that powers Wikipedia, to organize our stakeholders' collective intelligence.

Current Thinking

Supply
Chain
Optimization

Single-Company
Single Project/Issue
Short-Term Plan

New Thinking

Collaborative
Industrial
Optimization

Multi-Company
Whole System
Long-Term Plan

Our supply chains are unorganized. The truth is, neither marketplace dynamics nor vested interest lobbying lead to smart supply chains. For North America’s future prosperity, they must be re-conceived with a long-term vision.

The problem is not a lack of intelligence—there are so many smart, committed people in industry, government, and the community. What we have been lacking are the effective forums and methods for gathering that intelligence into smart policy, programs, and marketplace improvements.

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Our first initiative catalyzes freight rail expansion to drive industrial productivity across North America.

VitalRail

The need and opportunity for railroad development to address transportation efficiency and environmental challenges has never been greater. VitalRail is informed by our founder’s 30 years of in-the-field work advancing railroads as the catalyst for industrial productivity in 47 U.S. States and Canadian Provinces.

How Do We Get Stakeholders to Agree?

High-level professionals from various industries attend conferences to discuss pressing challenges, but real breakthroughs often remain out of reach. IntelliConferences® are large-scale, multi-stakeholder, highly efficient dialogues. This is the urgently needed approach for gathering human intelligence. Through multiple rounds of questions, responses, and synthesis, stakeholders turn problems into progress.

If you’d like to help us make a difference, you can learn more at “Learn CAPSI” or join us on the CAPSI collaborative workspace.

Learn CAPSI

“Increased federal and private infrastructure spending that exacerbates the inefficiencies in our supply chains is unsustainable. We need to think and invest at a multidimensional level that guides where we site new facilities, how we transport goods, and where we move material to and from. Our only path to sustainability is to move as much freight by rail as is logical in better coordination with trucks. Rebalancing our multimodal freight system will deliver cascading benefits to the broader economy and the environment. That requires rethinking supply chains, clear metrics, and inclusive dialogue.”

--Michael Sussman, CEO & President of OTNA

The Case for VitalRail by Michael Sussman