Sep 10 2009
Should we have a National Freight Policy?
That’s the question this week on the National Journal’s Transportation Experts Blog - ASCE’s answer is, yes, definitely!
Freight today rarely travels by truck alone, and the transfer from one mode to the next often adds to costly delays and pollution from idling vehicles. The needs of our global economy demand that we start enhancing and improving connectivity and service to the major intermodal terminals including seaports, airports, rail terminals, ports of entry and inland intermodal terminals. To do this, programs at every level of government need to use a wide range of multimodal options and new technologies when developing their transportation plans. Of course, the key question in all of this is: How do we pay for it?
To read the full post, click here.