Freight System Plan
The Washington Freight System Plan examines all modes of freight movement -- including trucks, airplanes, rail, barges and cargo ships.
The efficient, safe and reliable transportation of goods throughout Washington is critical to every aspect of economic and community vitality in the Pacific Northwest. A well-functioning, resilient multimodal freight system provides the backbone for Washington economic competitiveness.
The Washington Freight System Plan (FSP) outlines the vision for Washington’s multimodal freight system and supports collaboration with public and private partners. WSDOT is required by federal law to update this plan every four years.
2026 Freight System Plan
WSDOT is currently finalizing the 2026 Freight System Plan. The 2026 plan will guide policy and investment decisions to address multimodal freight needs across Washington. It will incorporate a supply chain–focused lens while integrating statewide transportation priorities that include:
- Improving supply chain, infrastructure, and economic resilience
- Supporting Washington’s economic competitiveness
- Mitigating freight system negative impacts on communities
The draft 2026 FSP is now available for public comment through September 13, 2026.
To share your feedback, please email FreightPlan@wsdot.wa.gov. Please include the page number or section/appendix that you are referring to with each of your comments.
In addition to sending an email with comments, you may also use the comment form linked below to document your feedback and submit via email. Use of comment form is optional. Optional comment form
Below are the draft content, appendices, data and tools. You may comment on any or all of the documents.
- Draft 2026 Washington State FREIGHT SYSTEM PLAN (PDF 2MB)
- Draft FSP Executive Summary (PDF 46KB)
- Draft 2026 FSP Appendices
- Appendix A – Compliance Crosswalk (PDF 1MB)
- Appendix B – Partner Engagement Summary (PDF 2MB)
- Appendix C – Economic Context and Supply Chains (PDF 9MB)
- Appendix D – Washington’s Multimodal Freight System (PDF 16MB)
- Appendix E – Freight Activity Hubs and Key Corridors (revised) (PDF 27MB)
- Appendix F – Washington’s Freight System Performance (PDF 11MB)
- Appendix G – Freight System Resilience Assessment (PDF 9MB)
- Appendix H – Trends and Strategic Direction (PDF 2MB)
- Appendix I – Freight Investment Plan (PDF 1MB)
- Supporting 2026 FSP data and tools
- Supply chain interactive storymap - Provides a visual perspective of the economic impacts of freight movement in Washington
WSDOT requests your feedback on the draft FSP by September 13, 2026.
WSDOT will review all comments received before that date and consider how best to address that feedback in the final FSP. While WSDOT may not be able to respond individually to every comment submitted, all feedback will be carefully considered as part of the plan development process.
Prior feedback results
The 2026 Freight System Plan online open house was launched in December 2025 to gather your feedback and ensure that the plan:
- Accurately reflects the needs and concerns of everyone using or impacted by the freight system
- Improves the quality of data and insights incorporated into freight planning
- Strengthens support for implementing plan recommendations
Your input helped shape the policies, strategies, and investments that support a safe, efficient, and resilient multimodal freight system in Washington.
To gather input, WSDOT posted an engagement survey and interactive map between December 2025 and March 2026. WSDOT also made additional engagement opportunities available. The draft FSP includes information about how input received during this engagement period helped to inform the plan. See Appendix B (Partner Engagement Summary) for details.
Current 2022 Freight System Plan
The 2022 Freight System Plan is being used to guide current freight transportation policies, programs, and investments. This plan fulfills the federal freight planning requirements under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and supports Washington state’s six transportation policy goals. It was developed collaboratively with public and private partners and reflects the feedback gathered throughout the plan outreach process.
The final plan includes an easy-to-read main plan and a series of technical appendices that provide additional details for different elements of the plan.
2022 Washington State Freight System Plan (PDF 5KB)
- Appendix A - Federal Conformance (PDF 207KB) - Outlines how this plan follows federal planning requirements.
- Appendix B - Outreach Summary (PDF 481KB) - Documents the outreach activities undertaken to create this plan, including the stakeholder outreach process, thematic findings, and how the findings were used within the plan.
- Appendix C - Supply Chains (PDF 15MB) - Documents the economic context for the Washington multimodal freight system including population trends, economic trends, the role of freight-dependent industries, and Washington supply chains that depend on the freight system.
- Appendix D - Freight System (PDF 4MB) - Documents the inventory of multimodal freight infrastructure and facilities (both public and privately owned) in Washington, including major freight activity centers. The inventory captures Washington’s road freight network, rail freight network, maritime network, air cargo network, and pipeline network.
- Appendix E - System Performance (PDF 12MB) - Provides an assessment of the current conditions and performance of the multimodal freight system in Washington.
- Appendix F - Needs, Issues and Potential Improvements (PDF 6MB) - Describes the identified freight needs and issues associated with each of the statewide policy goals over the short, medium, and long-term. The document also contains potential improvement strategies to address the identified needs and issues and suggested owners and partners.
- Appendix G - 2026 Amended Freight Investment Plan (PDF 4KB) - Describes how WSDOT will spend the federal National Highway Freight Program funding that it receives, and the process that was used to identify and select projects for funding.
- Appendix H - Truck Parking Assessment (PDF 14MB) - Includes a new truck parking inventory, a truck parking needs review and an analysis of truck parking conditions.
Data and Tools
As part of the 2022 Freight System Plan, new freight data and tools for use by public and private partners are available:
- Freight Plan interactive storymap –visually shows how different supply chains of key freight industries work in Washington state, including agriculture, food manufacturing, forestry, and aerospace manufacturing.
- Freight data visualization dashboard – allows users to explore the value, tonnage, commodity, and mode of freight flows traveling to, from and within Washington. It also allows users to filter and download freight flow data by years, trade types, and origin-destination pairs at county and MPO/RTPO level.
Additional resources
- FHWA Freight Professional Capacity Building Program – provides assistance and resources to freight practitioners at the State DOT, MPO and local agency level.
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- 中文 - Chinese (PDF 215KB)
- Af-soomaaliga - Somali (PDF 114KB)
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