About Us
The West Coast Corridor Coalition (WCCC) was launched in November 2001 by transportation policy leaders in California, Oregon, Washington and Alaska to address the looming challenge of goods movement in the Pacific states.
The original purpose of the Coalition was four-fold:
1. To encourage freight systems approaches rather than a project-level focus in making infrastructure investments.
2. To share “best practices” in order to optimize the capacity and performance of the existing corridor system.
3. To develop a common voice on the national role played by the West Coast in moving U.S. imports and exports and gain national support for this role.
4. To advocate for financing options to fund transportation system improvements serving the interests of the Coalition, including both additional funding and regulator changes.
Five years into the Coaliton's work, a co-equal priority emerged: the need for response to evidence of global climate change - and transportation's part as a source of this envirnomental risk and impact. Moreover, since goods movement and personal travel rely largely on the same transportation system, both needed to be addressed where intertwined.
In 2008, the Coalition released the "West Coast Corridor Trade and Transportation Study", a first step by members to inform decision makers about the importance of the Corridor as an imperiled driver of economic growth and innovative technology. The following year brought the publication of the WCCC's first Business Plan, and the comprehensive "Clean, Green and Smart Best Practices Manual". In September of 2010, the WCCC staged the hugely successful "Climate Policy and West Coast Transportation Conference" at Stanford University to encourage public-private cooperation and collaboration in the on-going creation of a "clean, green and smart" west coast transportation corridor. The momentum continues to build.
