Rail Freight Solutions To Roadway Congestion

Author : Joseph Bryan
Publisher : Transportation Research Board
ISBN 13 : 0309098939
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rail Freight Solutions to Roadway Congestion written by Joseph Bryan and published by Transportation Research Board. This book was released on 2007 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

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Download or read book NCHRP Report 586 written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Bernard Aritua
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 1464813817
Total Pages : 65 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rail Freight Challenge for Emerging Economies written by Bernard Aritua and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2019-01-18 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report captures ways in which policy makers and senior officials in railway organizations from emerging economies can accelerate modal shift to rail. Such officials, as well as the general public, aspire for more freight to be moved by rail. The environmental and societal benefits of such a shift are compelling. And yet investment in railways is often not followed by a corresponding increase in freight moved by rail. This report highlights the fact that, in a world of changing global supply chains and logistics, the approach to regaining modal share needs to be different. The expectation that lower cost and efficient rail service will automatically lead to modal shift from road to rail has not been a reality in most emerging economies. Modern railways focus on understanding the logistics of targeted freight and positioning rail transport services as part of an overall logistics system aimed at meeting the needs of customers.

Author : Richard Hillestad
Publisher : Rand Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0833048996
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fast-Forward written by Richard Hillestad and published by Rand Corporation. This book was released on 2009-08-31 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Efficient movement of freight within the United States and across its borders is a critical enabler of future U.S. economic growth. The authors provide an overview of the freight-transportation system and the problems it faces, concluding with a discussion of key system-modernization issues, including increasing capacity, making the system less vulnerable to disruption, addressing environmental concerns, and building support for funding.

Author : Matthew Heins
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131728237X
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Globalization of American Infrastructure written by Matthew Heins and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-01-29 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Stephen S. Roop
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 73 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book International Rail Freight Transportation in South Texas written by Stephen S. Roop and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David Lowe
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136394656
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Intermodal Freight Transport written by David Lowe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-08-11 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an introduction to the whole concept of intermodal freight transport, the means of delivering goods using two or more transport modes, recounting both European experience and UK developments and reporting on the extensive political influences on this form of transport. This is placed into context with reference to developments in North America and Asia. Detailed explanations are given of the road and rail vehicles, the loading units and the transfer equipment used in such operations. In particular, the role of the Channel Tunnel in the development of long-haul combined transport operations between the UK and Europe is considered.

Author : Daniel Brod
Publisher : Transportation Research Board
ISBN 13 : 0309283485
Total Pages : 119 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Comprehensive Costs of Highway-Rail Grade Crossing Crashes written by Daniel Brod and published by Transportation Research Board. This book was released on 2013 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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.

Author : United States. Government Accountability Office
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 70 pages
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Download or read book Freight Transportation written by United States. Government Accountability Office and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jeffrey Macher
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429633645
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book U.S. Freight Rail Economics and Policy written by Jeffrey Macher and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-04-25 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.