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North/West passage corridor-wide commercial vehicle permitting.
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2010-04-01
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NTL Classification:NTL-FREIGHT-FREIGHT;NTL-FREIGHT-Trucking Industry;NTL-HIGHWAY/ROAD TRANSPORTATION-HIGHWAY/ROAD TRANSPORTATION;NTL-PLANNING AND POLICY-Planning - Newsletters;
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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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