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TRANSPORT POLICIES * USA - DOT Plan Would Reshape Freight Planning
Long-term vision targets multi-state spending, carbon reductions
Washington,DC,USA -The Journal of Commerce Online, by John D. Boyd -May 4, 2010: -- A proposed long-term vision to guide the Department of Transportation would focus on major freight system corridors, curb carbon use by freight operations and use more multi-jurisdiction planning instead of letting states decide how to spend much of the federal money budgeted for them... Those are elements of what Transportation Secretary, Ray LaHood, called “a new strategic plan that returns the focus of transportation decisions to the people who use the transportation systems and their communities”... As LaHood and other DOT officials have indicated in recent months, the “Transportation for a New Generation” concept would shift more freight out of trucking and onto railroads, build community “livability” concepts into freight facility planning and put greenhouse gas considerations firmly into freight funding and regulatory strategies... The program is chock full of new ways to measure system needs and then to link that data to funding and regulatory actions, from clocking the use of freight corridors to a standard for truck stability to prevent rollovers of heavy trucks. It plans to inventory all existing port acreage and berthing spaces to guide investments so ports can prepare for growth in ocean trade... (Photo from tinypic: trains wallpapers)
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