Federal Funding of Rail Rehabilitation: A Review of Alternative Approaches

Details

• Corporate Creators:
  United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment ; Harbridge House, inc.
• Corporate Contributors:
  United States. Congress. Senate Committee on Commerce. Surface Transportation Subcommittee
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Railroads
  • Railroad transportation
  • Federal government
  • Government funding
  • Finance
  • Rehabilitation (Maintenance)
  • Rail rehabilitation
• Publication/ Report Number:
  OTA-T-11
• Resource Type:
  Other
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Corporate Publisher:
  United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment
• Description:
  This study explores the proposed mechanisms for injecting federal funds into the rehabilitation of the fixed plant of U.S. railroads--that is, the roadbed, ballast, ties, signaling systems, yards and terminals that make up the physical rail system. The study accomplishes two specific tasks: (1) it identifies and describes selected alternative funding mechanisms in a way that facilitates comparisons among them, and (2) identifies key issues arising from the wide range of funding mechanisms and informally reviews the reactions to these issues of major parties at interest. This review is an assessment of rail transportation requested by the Subcommittee on Surface Transportation, Committee on Commerce, U.S. Senate. 88 p.
• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  OTA C-25
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/14368/dot_14368_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 883.31 KB]
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:b86540d1c3c70becf6d1966e70f5c0935497fee2efa098ad36f96cefcf9d270c