Eastern Pennsylvania Freight Alliance

Eastern Pennsylvania has a history as a regional and national center of industrial and commercial activity. The region is rich with natural and cultural resources and is supported by a robust transportation network that provides connections to New York, New Jersey, and Philadelphia, as well as points west within Pennsylvania and beyond. Eastern Pennsylvania is attractive because of its legacy manufacturing industries, strategic position along major interstate trucking routes and rail routes, relative proximity to international ports and airports in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York, and affordable/available land compared to areas closer to the urban core of the New York/New Jersey region.

Growth within the freight sector in Eastern Pennsylvania is associated with the region’s geographic advantage – it is not only a short drive to major freight centers in New Jersey and Central Pennsylvania, but the region is located a day’s drive from nearly 40 percent of the nation’s population.

Eastern Pennsylvania will continue to be an attractive destination for the goods movement industry. The Alliance is focused on identifying and fostering opportunities to invest in infrastructure and develop policy guidance that address existing and future challenges associated with continued expansion of freight in the region, including those focused on mobility and reliability, safety and security, or infrastructure condition.