The Palouse Regional Transportation Planning Organization (Palouse RTPO) seeks Consultant services for completion of a Freight Alternative Study within and around the City of Pullman/Whitman County region.

The Palouse RTPO will be serving as the lead agency for the completion of the Freight Alternatives Study. The primary objective for the Consultant selected to complete this Study is to examine various innovative and practical solutions to reduce heavy truck traffic and regional freight movement within the downtown Pullman area, while providing safe, reliable and practical alternative route(s) for freight movements. Critical to this Study will be the collection of reliable "big data" including origin-destination patterns of freight and agricultural vehicles, as well as passenger vehicles, while accounting for the seasonal peak(s) of regional traffic patterns.

The Palouse RTPO is a transportation planning agency covering Asotin, Columbia, Garfield and Whitman Counties in eastern Washington. It represents cities, counties, WSDOT regions, transit agencies, ports, and large employers in the region, and each agency appoints representatives to serve on the Palouse RTPO Transportation Policy Board, the governing authority of the Palouse RTPO. The board engages and participates in regional transportation discussions and decision processes to achieve unified regional transportation planning for the four counties, as established and directed by RCW 47.80.

The Request for Qualifications and draft Scope of Work for this Study can be viewed and downloaded from Palouse RTPO's website at www.palousertpo.org. Responses to the RFQ will be accepted until 4:30 p.m. on Friday, October 11, 2024. Questions on the Request for Qualifications can be directed to Rebecca Couch at rebecca@palousertpo.org.