Committee Information

2018 Blue Ribbon Committee Award Winner

The Intermodal Freight Transport Committee was established in 1984, a few years before passage of the federal Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act. In its 20 plus years of existence, the committee has focused on a wide variety of intermodal matters reflecting the increased visibility and importance of intermodal in general and freight in particular. Our success in achieving this goal is dependent on maintaining a large and varied network of friends and members. We welcome your interest in this committee and look forward to seeing you at one of our meetings.

Members must follow TRB membership guidelines on committee appointments, AT045 guidelines on professional background, professional contributions and contributions to committee activities. The document also describes selection methods and member duties.

To assist with meeting its mission and accomplishing its goals, the Intermodal Freight Transport Committee has developed a set of 16 performance measures under 5 categories. The committee regularly reports on progress in meeting the performance measures, and when needed, modifies its activities for the measures to better reflect changing priorities and resource availability.

In January, 2000, the Intermodal Freight Transport Committee developed a strategic planning concept. In 2003, the committee reviewed the concept and developed a more formal strategic plan which was presented to the committee at its January, 2004 meeting and updated in March 2006. Most recently, a strategic plan charting the course of the committee through 2013 was approved at the January 2011 annual meeting.

TRB Guidelines require committees to critically evaluate themselves approximately every three years. The Triennial Strategic Plan, formerly called the Triennial Self-Evaluation, is a written report that summarizes committee goals, activities, membership, research activities, and other information. The report helps identify committee strengths and weaknesses, and may suggest areas where the committee should take steps to improve. A committee submits its self-evaluation to a TRB review committee which, in turn, reports its findings back to the committee under review.