Moving freight in the new economy: payoffs, perils and paradoxes.

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• Creators:
  Barami, Bahar
• Corporate Creators:
  John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center (U.S.)
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  Commodies Economic Analysis Economic Growth Freight Traffic Freight Transportation Gross National Product Information Systems Infrastructure Knowledge Logistics Tonnage

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• Resource Type:
  Journal
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Corporate Publisher:
  John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center (U.S.)
• NTL Classification:
  AGR-COMMODITIES-COMMODITIES ; AGR-COMMODITIES-Commodity Flow ; AGR-FREIGHT-FREIGHT ; AGR-FREIGHT-Intermodal Freight Transportation ; NTL-FREIGHT-FREIGHT ; NTL-FREIGHT-Freight Economics and Finance
• Abstract:
  The infusion of information technology in all industrial processes has elevated the performance of the U.S. economy to new heights. Yet our transportation system is still guided by many of the obsolete infrastructure investment and pricing paradigms of the old economy. Consequently, our freight network suffers from congestion, and environmental degradation. The network also faces severe capacity shortages in some segments and is underutilized in others. We need new accounting tools for infrastructure pricing and new strategies for incorporating the full costs and environmental impacts of network use.
• Format:
  PDF
• Collection(s):
  Volpe Center
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:f9ff318f6a3accff8fed0d8eaa51b331b221ee3f5954b869c69d90102d8325a1
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/9718/dot_9718_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
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