RESTRUCTURING FREIGHT TRANSPORTATION IN CHICAGO

Five hundred million tons of freight traffic enter, leave, or pass in transit through, the Chicago area each year. The above article contains details of a report on the restructuring of the existing transport system. The rail system would include a smaller number of marshalling yards, as well as of radial penetrating tracks, and lines, and high-speed services, which ultimately, would be electrified. Wide inter-modal corridors would be used for penetration purposes. The installations for inland-waterway traffic, and the residential areas in proximity to the inland-waterways, would be restructured. Congestion in the business centre would be relieved, without any reduction in its activities, by a more efficient arrangement. The above article contains a brief explanation, as well as a commentary and justification, of these arrangements.

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• Authors:
  • Blaze, J R
• Publication Date: 1972-8

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References;
• Pagination: 8 p.
• Serial:
  • Journal of Transportation Engineering
  • Volume: 98
  • Issue Number: TE3
  • Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
  • ISSN: 0733-947X
  • Serial URL: https://ascelibrary.org/journal/jtepbs

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Freight transportation; Network analysis (Planning); Transportation; Transportation planning
• Subject Areas: Planning and Forecasting; Transportation (General);

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00048254
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: Proc Paper 9109
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jan 11 1974 12:00AM