Marygrace Parker serves as the Director, Freight for The Eastern Transportation Coalition (“TETC” and formerly the I-95 Coalition) a consortium of state Department of Transportations, Port, Toll, Bridge authorities, MPOs and related transportation agencies from Maine to Florida, Tennessee, Alabama, and Kentucky. She oversees the Coalition’s program working with TETC states and industry partners to address freight mobility, safety, and resiliency across boundaries. She has been serving as staff support through all phases of TETC’s MBUF truck pilot work awarded to TETC under USDOT’s Surface Transportation System Funding Alternatives grant program. In addition to convening Coalition public sector members across multiple jurisdictions to share information, strategies and highlight initiatives related to goods movement and support supply chain mobility, Mrs. Parker works closely with the motor carrier industry organizational representatives and related stakeholders including trucking companies, shippers, and owner operators. She is a member of the Transportation Research Board’s Intermodal Freight Committee and has served on a number of freight-related National Cooperative Highway Research Projects. Prior to joining Coalition staff, she served as Director, Traffic Management with the New York State Thruway Authority, where she was part of the senior management team engaged in planning, developing and deploying the first electronic tolling system in the United States (E-ZPass).