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US General Accounting Office (GAO)
To improve the nation’s surface transportation system over a 6-year period ending in fiscal year 1997, the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act ([ISTEA], Public Law 102-240, Dec. 18, 1991) authorized $155 billion. Although ISTEA primarily authorized highway construction and improvements, it also emphasized how intermodal connections can enhance the nation’s transportation infrastructure. Intermodal connections link the various transportation modes—highways, rail, air, and maritime facilities. According to the National Commission on Intermodal Transportation’s 1994 report, these connections are typically the weakest links in the nation’s transportation system. Economists and transportation planners believe that productivity and efficiency gains can be achieved by improving intermodal connections.
In preparation for reauthorization of ISTEA, you asked us to review several intermodal freight transportation issues. We reviewed (1) the Department of Transportation’s (DOT) efforts to track how states use ISTEA funds for facilitating intermodal transportation and the nature and extent of ISTEA funds used by states for intermodal freight projects, (2) how some local and regional areas that handle a large volume of freight have considered intermodal freight transportation issues as part of their planning process, and (3) what kind of impediments some areas face in improving intermodal freight transportation. In addition, we developed information on intermodal freight transportation trends...
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United States. Dept. of Transportation; Containerization; Freight and freightage; United States; States; Management
United States. General Accounting Office
1996 - Reports - INTERMODAL FREIGHT TRANSPORTATION: PROJECTS AND PLANNING ISSUES
To improve the nation’s surface transportation system over a 6-year period ending in fiscal year 1997
the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act ([ISTEA]
Public Law 102-240
Dec. 18
1991) authorized $155 billion. Although ISTEA primarily authorized highway construction and improvements
it also emphasized how intermodal connections can enhance the nation’s transportation infrastructure. Intermodal connections link the various transportation modes—highways
rail
air
and maritime facilities. According to the National Commission on Intermodal Transportation’s 1994 report
these connections are typically the weakest links in the nation’s transportation system. Economists and transportation planners believe that productivity and efficiency gains can be achieved by improving intermodal connections.
In preparation for reauthorization of ISTEA
you asked us to review several intermodal freight transportation issues. We reviewed (1) the Department of Transportation’s (DOT) efforts to track how states use ISTEA funds for facilitating intermodal transportation and the nature and extent of ISTEA funds used by states for intermodal freight projects
(2) how some local and regional areas that handle a large volume of freight have considered intermodal freight transportation issues as part of their planning process
and (3) what kind of impediments some areas face in improving intermodal freight transportation. In addition
we developed information on intermodal freight transportation trends...
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