A Federal Role in Freight Planning and Finance

• Main Author: Rosenbloom, Sandra (auth)
• Other Authors: Wachs, Martin (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: RAND Corporation 2012
• Subjects: History of the Americas; Transport law; Buses, trams & commercial vehicles: general interest; Political Science; Transportation Studies; Law; History
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

This monograph describes a federal freight policy designed to address growing challenges faced by the U.S. freight network in an environment dominated by declining revenues and public resistance to increasing taxes. The strategy emphasizes disaggregating project costs and benefits by location, stake...