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HIGHWAYS AND ARTERIALS DALLAS REGIONAL CHAMBER REGIONAL DALLAS ACCESS DENTON TRANSPORTATION McKINNEY Dallas-Fort Worth’s vast transportation | infrastructure connects residents and FRISCO ALLEN businesses. The freeway system provides TRANSPORTATION east-west and north-south corridors with easy access to job centers and residential communities. Mass transit LEWISVILLE PLANO options, including the Dallas Area Rapid FLOWER MOUND WYLIE Transit (DART) system, the Fort Worth PHOTO: DFW AIRPORT T, Trinity Railway Express (TRE), and the AIRPORTS GRAPEVINE CARROLTON Denton County Transit Authority’s (DCTA) A RICHARDSON | XXXXXXX Train off er alternatives to cars for getting ROWLETT 8 GARLAND around the region. 5 The region’s robust interstate infrastructure provides easy links along BEDFORD EULESS IRVING the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) corridor, linking Mexico to Canada DALLAS and to East and West Coast destinations, 15 making it an important intermodal center for the distribution of air, rail, and truck 3 FORT WORTH MESQUITE 4 freight. The nation’s two largest railroads, ARLINGTON GRAND Fort Worth–based Burlington Northern 9 PRAIRIE 16 Santa Fe and Union Pacifi c have major 1 operation nodes in the region, off ering business-effi cient access to other key 2 LANCASTER ports and distribution centers across the 7 DESOTO United States and into Mexico. 17 CEDAR 10 14 MANSFIELD Dallas-Fort Worth also is the HILL destination for some of the nation’s most innovative projects. One of them is already 6 substantially on its way to becoming 12 a reality: the Texas bullet train. TEXAS CENTRAL PARTNERS has received federal 18 CARGO PRE-DESIGNATED McKinney National FOREIGN TRADE ZONE approval for a path of travel for a $15 13 Airport 11 “MAGNET SITES” billion high-speed rail project that will Any company may locate on this connect the DFW area with Houston in 90 land and simply activate with minutes. AIRPORTS Customs. Two other potential projects in the COMPANY/SITE- works include: SPECIFIC FOREIGN 1 DALLAS FORT WORTH INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT 11 FORT WORTH SPINKS BNSF Intermodal > UBER ELEVATE, a fl ying rideshare Yard Kansas City Southern TRADE ZONES 2 DALLAS LOVE FIELD 12 ARLINGTON MUNICIPAL Wylie Rail Yard service in Dallas-Fort Worth that expects Addison Airport For companies wanting FTZ 3 FORT WORTH ALLIANCE AIRPORT 13 LANCASTER REGIONAL AIRPORT Fort Worth status but which cannot locate in to launch demonstration fl ights in 2020; Alliance 4 ADDISON AIRPORT 14 MESQUITE METRO and an existing magnet site. 5 MCKINNEY NATIONAL AIRPORT 15 NORTHWEST REGIONAL > HYPERLOOP TEXAS, a high-speed Kansas City Southern 6 DALLAS EXECUTIVE AIRPORT D/FW Garland Rail Yard RAIL YARD / HELICOPTERS AND VERTICAL TAKE-OFF International Dallas Love Field transportation system boasting speeds of Airport INTERMODAL FACILITY Fort Worth 7 FORT WORTH MEACHAM INTERNATIONAL AND LANDING AIRCRAFT ONLY: Meacham up to 700 miles per hour. The Texas route International 8 DENTON ENTERPRISE 16 GARLAND/DFW HELOPLEX Union Pacific DISTRIBUTION CENTERS would connect Dallas, Austin, Houston, and Rail Yard 9 RALPH M HALL/ROCKWALL MUNICIPAL 17 DALLAS CBD VERTIPORT Laredo. Union Pacific CUSTOM PORT OF ENTRY Rail Yard -GM 10 NAS FORT WORTH JOINT RESERVE BASE 18 HELIPORT DESOTO Union Pacific Miller Intermodal Facility RAIL LINE Centennial Yard Union Pacific Dallas Intermodal COMMERCIAL AIRPORTS Terminal Lancaster AIRPORT RUNWAYS TOTAL OPERATIONS Regional Number Lengths (feet) 2017 2016 Airport Dallas Fort Worth 8,500; 9,000; 9,301; 654,344 672,748 Railport 7 International Airport (DFW) 13,400 (2); 13,401 (2) Dallas Love Field (DAL) 3 8,800; 7,752; 6,147 227,533 224,193 Union Pacific Rail Yard Alliance Airport (AFW) 2 8,220; 9,600 112,143 106,563 32 DALLAS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT GUIDE SOURCE: TxDOT; Air Traffi c Activity Data System (ATADS), FAA 2018 2018 DALLAS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT GUIDE 33.