New Jersey Institute of Technology and the North Jersey Transportation Planning Authority (NJTPA) are studying abandoned industrial sites - brownfields - in northern New Jersey to determine their potential for freight-related redevelopment.

Intermodal container freight traffic is projected to double in New Jersey over the next decade. Phase I of the Brownfields Economic Development project, directed by George Fallat, deputy director of the National Center for Transportation and Industrial Productivity at NJIT, and James Mack of NJIT's York Center for Environmental Engineering and Science, ascertained freight-related businesses would be a good match with New Jersey's brownfields.

In Phase II, the research team is focusing on specific sites in Newark, Kearny, Carlstadt, Jersey City, Carteret and Elizabeth to better understand the opportunities and obstacles involved in freight-related redevelopment.

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