Landside Access to U.S. Ports

Landside Access to U.S. Ports
Author:
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
Total Pages: 212
Release: 1993
Genre: Transportation
ISBN: 9780309054072

TRB Special Report 238 - Landside Access to U.S. Ports examines the nature of port access problems and appropriate strategies for responding to them. The report covers four broad subject areas that influence landside transportation access to ports: physical impediments, land use policies, regulatory constraints, and institutional issues.

Special Report

Special Report
Author: National Research Council (U.S.). Transportation Research Board
Publisher:
Total Pages: 542
Release: 1992
Genre: Containerization
ISBN:

Multimodal Evaluation of Passenger Transportation

Multimodal Evaluation of Passenger Transportation
Author: G. Scott Rutherford
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
Total Pages: 96
Release: 1994
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780309056632

This synthesis will be of interest to transportation planners, environmental analysts, and government officials at the federal, state, regional, and local levels. It describes the state of the practice with respect to the procedures and methodologies used by planning agencies at all levels to plan and evaluate alternative multimodal passenger transportation and to integrate these plans with related land use and environmental issues. This report of the Transportation Research Board describes the federal studies and guidelines that are available and presents the findings of an extensive survey of state, regional, and local agencies to identify the evaluation methods that are being used in the practice. Selected case studies for five types of modal evaluation are presented: intercity corridor, regional study, regional screening, urban corridor, and regional programming.

Institutional Challenges to Intermodal Transport and Logistics

Institutional Challenges to Intermodal Transport and Logistics
Author: Jason Monios
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 245
Release: 2016-05-23
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 131711583X

While the operational realities of intermodal transport are relatively well known, the institutional challenges are less well understood. This book provides an overview of intermodal transport and logistics including the policy background, emerging industry trends and academic approaches. Establishing the three key features of intermodal transport geography as intermodal terminals, inland logistics and hinterland corridors, Jason Monios takes an institutional approach to understanding the difficulties of successful intermodal transport and logistics. Key areas of investigation include the policy and planning background, the roles of public and private stakeholders and the identification of emerging strategy conflicts. Substantial empirical content situates the theoretical and practical issues in real-world examples via three detailed case study chapters (covering the USA, UK and Europe), making the book useful to students as well as practitioners desiring an understanding of how intermodal transport and logistics work in practice. The identified challenges to intermodal transport and logistics are used to demonstrate how competing port and inland strategies can inhibit the necessary processes of integration required to underpin successful intermodal transport. The book concludes with a look at the future of institutional adaptation that may enhance the capacity of freight actors to engage with intermodal transport developments.

Leveraging ITS Data for Transit Market Research

Leveraging ITS Data for Transit Market Research
Author: James G. Strathman
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
Total Pages: 92
Release: 2008
Genre: Intelligent transportation systems
ISBN: 0309099420

TRB¿s Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Report 126: Leveraging ITS Data for Transit Market Research: A Practitioner¿s Guidebook examines intelligent transportation systems (ITS) and Transit ITS technologies currently in use, explores their potential to provide market research data, and presents methods for collecting and analyzing these data. The guidebook also highlights three case studies that illustrate how ITS data have been used to improve market research practices.