Our Insights

By Michael Sussman At the heart of OnTrackNorthAmerica’s work is the advancement of collaboration and coordination as a superior orientation […]

Place your hand on a steel rail after a 100-car train has just passed and feel the lack of heat. […]

By Michael Sussman ”Preserving competition in the marketplace,” by itself, is an incomplete regulatory principle that must be augmented with […]

The freight rail industry has a unique opportunity to address and overcome the systemic challenges that keep our immense contributions […]

by Michael Sussman Building productive transportation systems can only be accomplished by designing them sustainably. We can’t overcome unavoidable limits […]

Influential Rail Transportation Scholars to Provide Program and Development Resources Philadelphia, PA, November 13, 2015 OnTrackNorthAmerica (OTNA), a 501(c)(3) non-profit […]

Submitted in 2015, the USDOT’s draft of a National Freight Strategic Plan invited public comment until April of 2016. Eighty-six […]

Nonprofit transportation consultancy OnTrackNorthAmerica (OTNA) has entered a strategic partnership agreement with Impact Infrastructure, Inc. “to bring triple bottom line […]

By Michael Sussman In July, California Governor Jerry Brown signed Executive Order B-32-15 directing numerous state agencies to collaborate on […]

Written by Michael Sussman, OnTrackNorthAmerica President and Founder North America has yet to achieve the full extent of railroads’ potential […]

Mr. Buffett, congratulations on your purchase of the BNSF Railway. It is a welcome investment in North America’s transportation system. […]