Tennessee’s Short-Line Railroads

Details

• Alternative Title:
  Tennessee’s Short-Line Railroads: Programs Policies and Perspectives cover title
• Creators:
  Burton, Mark ; Lipinski, M
• Corporate Creators:
  University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Center for Transportation Research ; University of Memphis
• Corporate Contributors:
  Tennessee. Department of Transportation ; United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Short line railroads
  • Revenues
  • Light rail transit
  • Policy
  • Railroad law
  • Freight mobility challenges
  • Revenue from rail
  • Rail funding
  • Shortline rail policy
• Publication/ Report Number:
  RES2014-01
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  Tennessee ; United States
• Edition:
  March 2014 to March 2016
• Corporate Publisher:
  Tennessee. Department of Transportation
• Abstract:
  For nearly three decades, Tennessee, through its Department of Transportation (TDOT), has supported the development and rehabilitation of short-line railroads. In the 1980s and 1990s, these efforts helped ensure rail freight service for many Tennessee communities during an era of necessary but disruptive federal transportation reforms. Many short-line railroads today face precarious day-to-day finances and a perennial shortage of investment funds, so that the demands on available public resources invariably outpace funds. Adding to the challenge, Tennessee, like most states, has no obvious means of generating revenues for short-line support and rehabilitation, so that sustaining needed revenue streams is difficult. Against, this backdrop, TDOT engaged transportation faculty from the University of Tennessee and the University of Memphis to evaluate the state’s short-line program, to compare its program attributes to the strategies used in other states, and to begin the process of improving short-line data collection and preparation so that policy-makers will have the benefit of more accurate and timely information.
• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  04B318 (FHWA)
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/56248/dot_56248_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.45 MB]
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:c421206b2ea018a272305864daa3642221d144cf10c009e77b4b30668cd77ee3