Report of the National Surface Transportation Policy and Revenue Study Commission : transportation for tomorrow.

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• Alternative Title:
  Report of the National Surface Transportation Policy and Revenue Study Commission : transportation for tomorrow, volumes 1-3 ; Report of the National Surface Transportation Policy and Revenue Study Commission : transportation for tomorrow, December 2007 ; Report of the National Surface Transportation Policy and Revenue Study Commission : transportation for tomorrow, December 2007, volumes 1-2
• Corporate Creators:
  National Surface Transportation Policy and Revenue Study Commission (U.S.)
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  Economic Analysis Economic And Social Factors Economic Benefits Economic Factors Economic Impacts Economic Policy Federal Aid To Transportation--United States Policy Policy, Legislation And Regulation Policy Analysis Policy Making Transportation Transportation--United States--Finance Transportation--United States--Planning Transportation And State--United States Transportation Policy

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• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Corporate Publisher:
  National Surface Transportation Policy and Revenue Study Commission (U.S.)
• Abstract:
  President Dwight D. Eisenhower had the foresight
  
  to understand how a system of Interstate highways
  
  would transform the Nation. If there was ever a
  
  time to take a similarly daring look at a broadened
  
  surface transportation network, it is now! The
  
  Nation faces challenges similar to those of the
  
  Eisenhower era. However, the imperative for
  
  change due to the global economy is even stronger.
  
  Transportation is a critical engine of the
  
  Nation’s economy. Investments in the national
  
  transportation network over the Nation’s
  
  history, and especially the Interstate Highway
  
  System during the last half-century, have been instrumental in developing the world’s
  
  largest economy and most mobile society.
  
  Transportation is the thread that knits the
  
  country together, providing the mobility that
  
  is such an important part of overall quality of
  
  life and is so deeply embedded in our culture
  
  and history. Highways, transit, rail, and water
  
  systems provide unprecedented access to jobs,
  
  recreation, education, health care, and the many
  
  other activities that sustain and enrich the lives of
  
  American families.
  
  By 2050, the total U.S. population is projected to
  
  reach 420 million, a 50 percent increase over
  
  50 years. This growing society will demand higher
  
  levels of goods and services, and will rely on the
  
  transportation system to access them. In turn, this
  
  will cause travel to grow at an even greater rate
  
  than the population. As part of an increasingly
  
  integrated global economy, the U.S. will see
  
  greater pressures on its international gateways and its international gateways and domestic freight
  
  distribution network to deliver products and
  
  materials to where they are needed. The Nation
  
  is faced with a massive increase in passenger and
  
  freight travel.
  
  The Nation’s surface transportation program has
  
  reached a crossroads. Will it continue to function
  
  as it has since the completion of the Interstate
  
  system, pursuing no discernible national interests
  
  other than the political imperatives of “donor
  
  State” rights and congressional earmarking? Or
  
  will it advance concerted actions to confront the
  
  transportation challenges facing the Nation that
  
  have reached crisis proportions—the deferred
  
  maintenance of its basic infrastructure; the
  
  burgeoning international trade and its impact on
  
  our road and rail networks; the traffic congestion
  
  that is crippling metropolitan America; the
  
  continued carnage on the Nation’s highways; and
  
  powering cars and trucks with fossil fuels, much of
  
  which is imported from foreign countries?
  
  
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