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Report of the National Surface Transportation Policy and Revenue Study Commission : transportation for tomorrow.
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OCLC Number:682890417
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NTL Classification:NTL-PLANNING AND POLICY-PLANNING AND POLICY
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Abstract:The surface transportation system of the
United States is at a crossroads. The future
of our Nation’s well-being, vitality, and global
economic leadership is at stake. We must take
significant, decisive action now to create and
sustain the pre-eminent surface transportation
system in the world.
The first half of our Nation’s history saw that
economic development was directly tied to
infrastructure development. The creation of
roads for vehicles and the transcontinental
railroad led to trade and prosperity across the
vast continent. This in turn vaulted the Nation
into a position of significance in the world. The
second half of our history has been dominated
by the move from an agrarian society, through
the Industrial Revolution, into a largely urban
society and the world’s primary economic and
military superpower. All of this was facilitated
by the foresight of private and public sector
leaders who further developed the country’s
infrastructure including the Interstate highway
system, the Nation’s freight rail system, and
urban mass transit. Now we have outgrown this
system and it is time for new leadership to step
up with a vision for the next 50 years that will
ensure U.S. prosperity and global preeminence
for generations to come.
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