North/West passage corridor-wide commercial vehicle permitting.

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• Creators:
  Wittwer, Ernie ; Gollnik, Robert
• Corporate Creators:
  National Center for Freight and Infrastructure Research and Education (U.S.)
• Corporate Contributors:
  United States. Dept. of Transportation. Research and Innovative Technology Administration
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Freight traffic
  • Highway capacity
  • Permits
  • Oversize loads
  • Overweight loads
  • Regional transportation
  • Commercial vehicles
  • Highway corridors
  • Interstate compacts
• Publication/ Report Number:
  CFIRE 03-09
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Corporate Publisher:
  Minnesota. Dept. of Transportation
• NTL Classification:
  NTL-FREIGHT-FREIGHT ; NTL-FREIGHT-Trucking Industry ; NTL-HIGHWAY/ROAD TRANSPORTATION-HIGHWAY/ROAD TRANSPORTATION ; NTL-PLANNING AND POLICY-Planning - Newsletters
• Abstract:
  The efficient movement of freight is a key to the economic success of any state, region, or nation. Rising transport costs will tend to ; make products from the region more expensive and less competitive in the national and global markets. This trend can be addressed by ; adding capacity, a very expensive and long-term solution; improving the management of the highway and rail systems; and by easing ; the regulatory burden on carriers. ; Some states have organized themselves into compacts or coalitions to issue permits for these routine loads on a regional basis. While ; permitting is one of the issues often raised by truckers as a costly and frustrating process, a number of concerns over exactly how ; individual state rules can be harmonized to facilitate regional permitting must be resolved before multi-state agreements can be put into ; place. To better understand the nature of regional permitting processes, existing compacts or agreements must be reviewed and their ; rules, processes, and administrative procedures documented. In addition, members of those compacts must be interviewed to measure ; their perceptions of the costs and benefits entailed in regional agreements. ; This project team aims to identify how the North/West Passage states might pursue a regional permitting agreement, what such an ; agreement would mean for each state’s Department of Transportation, and the level of industry demand in the eight states of the ; North/West Passage Corridor for regional permitting services.
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• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  T002688
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/25347/dot_25347_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 2.33 MB]
• Collection(s):
  University Transportation Centers ; US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
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