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NCHRP Report 586
Author: Rail Freight Solutions to Roadway Congestion
Author: Joseph BryanPublisher: Transportation Research Board
ISBN: 0309098939
Category : Freight and freightage
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
NCHRP Report 586 explores guidance on evaluating the potential feasibility, cost, and benefits of investing in rail freight solutions to alleviate highway congestion from heavy truck traffic.
The Globalization of American Infrastructure
Author: Matthew HeinsPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317282361
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
This book gives an account of how the U.S. freight transportation system has been impacted and “globalized,” since the 1950s, by the presence of the shipping container. A globally standardized object, the container carries cargo moving in international trade, and it utilizes and fits within the existing transportation infrastructures of shipping, trucking and railroads. In this way it binds them together into a nearly seamless worldwide logistics network. This process occurs not only in ocean shipping and at ports, but also deep within national territories. In its dependence on existing infrastructural systems, though, the network of container movement as it pervades domestic space is shaped by the history and geography of the nation-state. This global network is not invariably imposed in a top-down manner—to a large degree, it is cobbled together out of national, regional and local systems. Heins describes this in the American context, examining the freight transportation infrastructures of railroads, trucking and inland waterways, and also the terminals where containers are transferred between train and truck. The book provides a detailed historical narrative, and is also theoretically informed by the contemporary literature on infrastructure and globalization.
Guidebook for Integrating Freight Into Transportation Planning and Project Selection Processes
Author: National Cooperative Highway Research ProgramPublisher: Transportation Research Board
ISBN: 0309099102
Category : Freight and freightage
Languages : en
Pages : 197
Book Description
Explores a framework for incorporating freight needs for all modes into transportation planning and priority programming by state, regional, metropolitan, local, and special transportation agencies. The report covers technical issues, organizational suggestions, and communication requirements of freight planning and programming. A project final report that describes the case studies used to help develop the guidebook and other resources used in the guidebook is available as NCHRP Web-Only. Document 112.
Improving Reliability on Surface Transport Networks
Author: International Transport ForumPublisher: OECD Publishing
ISBN: 9282102424
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Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description
This report provides policy makers with a framework to understand reliability issues in transport services, to incorporate reliability into project assessment and to design reliability management policies. It also explores a range of reliability performance measures.
Preserving Freight and Passenger Rail Corridors and Service
Author: David P. SimpsonPublisher: Transportation Research Board
ISBN: 0309097932
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Efforts to preserve rail corridors or restore rail service to dormant rail alignments across the United States are very uneven. A handful of states have aggressive, well-funded programs to support the preservation or reuse of rail alignments; more states have modest programs to support short line operations on a case-by-case basis, but attach no value to corridor retention per se. In 2005, California completed what is perhaps the nations most comprehensive physical plant inventory of active and abandoned rail corridors; a review driven by interest in passenger rail and nonmotorized corridor interests. A foundation has been set to more fully lever these valuable alignments in this country's most populous state. This synthesis was undertaken to document current practices with respect to rail corridor preservation. State departments of transportation (DOTs), selected metropolitan planning organizations, commuter rail agencies, short line holding companies, and Class I rail carriers were all surveyed for information. Response rates to the survey were moderate, averaging 24%, and overall supporting the notion that preservation of rail alignments is not a high-priority issue in many jurisdictions. A handful of state respondents, however, had a great deal of experience and valuable observations on rail preservation policies and could be said to have become experts on this subject through their dealings with several dozen rail corridors over the past two decades. North Carolina, Ohio, and Pennsylvania DOTs each have serious, well-established rail sections and a history of successful preservation efforts.
Comprehensive Costs of Highway-Rail Grade Crossing Crashes
Author: Daniel BrodPublisher: Transportation Research Board
ISBN: 0309283485
Category : Highway-railroad grade crossings
Languages : en
Pages : 119
Book Description
"TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 755: Comprehensive Costs of Highway-Rail Grade Crossing Crashes describes a process for estimating the costs of highway-rail grade crossing crashes. A spreadsheet-based tool to facilitate use of the cost estimation process is available online." --Publisher description.
A Concept for a National Freight Data Program
Author: National Research Council (U.S). Committee on Freight Transportation Data: a Framework for DevelopmentPublisher: Transportation Research Board
ISBN: 0309085705
Category : Freight and freightage
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Calls upon the Department of Transportation and its Bureau of Transportation Statistics to take the lead in coordinating freight data collection in the US. This work focuses on increasing the linkages between sources of data and filling data gaps to develop a source of timely and reliable data on freight flows. A national framework is needed.
Freight Transportation
Author: United States. Government Accountability OfficePublisher:
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Category : Freight and freightage
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
U.S. Freight Rail Economics and Policy
Author: Jeffrey T. MacherPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429633645
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
The passage of the Staggers Rail Act in 1980 led brought a renaissance to the freight rail industry. In the decade following, economists documented the effects of the Act on a variety of important economic metrics including prices, costs, and productivity. Over the preceding years, and with the return of the industry to more stable footing, attention to the industry by economists faded. The lack of attention, however, has not been due to a dearth of ongoing economic and policy issues that continue to confront the industry. In this volume, we begin to rectify this inattention. Rather than retread older analyses or provide yet another look at the consequences of Staggers, we assemble a collection of ten chapters in four sections that collectively provide fresh and up-to-date analyses of the economic issues and policy challenges the industry faces: the first section sets the context through foundational discussion of freight rail; the second section highlights the role of freight rail in an increasingly interrelated economy; the third section examines industry structure and scope in freight rail; and the fourth section assesses current regulatory challenges that confront freight rail. This book will be of great value to researchers, academics, policymakers, and students interested in the fields of freight rail economics and policy, transportation, business history, and regulatory economics.
