Table of Contents

1 Executive summary
  1.1 About this report
  1.2 Summary of findings
2 Introduction
3 Rail's role in the inter-modal freight system
  3.1 The evolution of the nation's freight system
  3.2 Goods movement today
  3.3 Freight-rail services today
  3.4 Freight-rail benefits today
  3.5 The freight-rail business today
4 Alternative futures for the freight-rail system
  4.1 Economic and logistic drivers of freight demand
  4.2 Freight forecasts and transportation system
      impacts
  4.3 Alternative freight-rail growth scenarios
  4.4 Assessment of freight corridors
5 Creating the 21st century freight-rail system
  5.1 Choices and vision
  5.2 Public-private partnership opportunity
  5.3 The bottom line
Appendix A - Private-sector rail issues and challenges
Appendix B - Public-sector rail programs
Appendix C - Public-private rail financing strategies
Appendix D - Examples of public-benefit freight-rail
             projects
Appendix E - Assessment of freight corridors
Appendix F - Endnotes

Abstract

Describes the nation's freight-rail system and addresses the concerns about the capacity of the nation's freight transportation system, in order to keep pace with the expected growth of the economy over the next 20 years.

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Document Type	Standard
Status	Current
Publisher	American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials
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