The project team was led by Chris Steele of CWS Consulting Group, LLC who has over 20 years of experience in site selection and location strategy expert with specific experience in the freight transportation and distribution industries. The team builds on this core expertise by including firms with the full coverage of logistics, land use policy, and economic analysis that can translate this knowledge into practical guidance for the public sector.

CWS Consulting Group understands that locations are strategic assets. Every community and site brings different strengths and liabilities for a company—these intimately drive labor force, operating costs, workflow, logistics flow, P&L, tax and regulatory environment for the business.

In addition to project lead, CWS Consulting Group focused on site selection, business attraction and the economic development side of the project.

Please visit CWS's website at cwsgrp.com

HDR|Decision Economics enjoys an international reputation for technical excellence and quality service, particularly in the market areas of economic development analysis, freight/intermodal transportation and infrastructure, environment and natural resources. HDR’s full-service engineering practice has industry-leading expertise in transportation planning and engineering, including specialized services in railroad, highway and ports engineering. HDR’s Rail Practice includes many former Class 1, regional, short line or passenger railroad employees with hands-on knowledge of rail and freight logistics and facility siting. Of note, HDR has worked on site evaluations, engineering, environmental and economics of major intermodal rail facilities across the U.S. and Canada, including major intermodal facilities in Kansas, Florida, New York, California and Texas. HDR Decision Economics focused on public policy, economics and engineering during the course of this project.

Please visit HDR's website at hdrinc.com

Halcrow is one of the largest multi-disciplinary consultancies in the world, providing expert services in the fields of surface transportation and maritime infrastructure and financing, water, environment, and energy systems world-wide.  Halcrow has an established freight and logistics practice throughout North America and internationally and is unique in its technical excellence in transportation modeling (network, econometric and discrete choice techniques), travel demand forecasting, toll revenue/traffic forecasting and toll pricing. Halcrow focused on logistics, freight movement and forecasting.

Please visit Halcrow's website at halcrow.com

Resource Systems Group (RSG) specializes in the planning, analysis, and management of business, infrastructure and natural resources.  They are national leaders in developing and applying state-of-the-art models and planning tools for helping statewide and local agencies make important planning decisions. RSG’s people include many who have been planning agency or unit staff, providing them with the ability to work hand in hand with clients and see options and opportunities from their perspective. RSG focused on land use planning policy and public private partnerships.

Please visit RSG's website at rsginc.com

Fitzgerald & Halliday, Inc. (FHI) is a full-service planning consulting firm, providing services to public and private sector clients since 1987. Staff specialists include planners, engineers, environmental scientists, and cultural resource specialists with expertise in transportation, natural resources, historic resources, community planning, public involvement, GIS, and other support fields. FHI focused on public outreach and stakeholder process.

Please visit FHI's website at fhiplan.com