Transportation Officials Outline Needs For Linking Modes and Nodes
Due to trends in globalization and logistics and the planned $5-billion expansion of the Panama Canal, movement of goods through the U.S. is increasing by leaps and bounds. A Government Accountability Office freight report in January estimates that total shipments of about 15 billion tons in 2004 will double by 2035.
Scores of projects are on the drawing boards, from Atlanta’s truck-only lanes study to Miami’s $1-billion port tunnel and everywhere in between, which aim to ease chokepoints between ports and intermodal connectors. But for many projects, funding is still questionable.