ELIZABETH PORT AUTHORITY MARINE TERMINAL PERMANENT EXPRESSRAIL INTERMODAL TERMINAL

In December 1991, the board of commissioners of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey approved funds for final design and construction of a new on-dock rail terminal, to be located at the Elizabeth Port Authority Marine Terminal. Initially planned for a throughput capacity approaching 125,000 marine containers annually, the new facility will be expandable in modules of about 50,000 units each. A pilot facility, operated by ExpressRail, in concert with a range of other rail cost-cutting measures, had already produced encouraging results. The port's rail intermodal volume, which had languished at fewer than 20,000 units annually only 3 years earlier, had nearly quadrupled by the end of 1991. By the first quarter of 1994, the interim facility's capacity was being taxed severely, and temporary capacity had to be added until the new construction project could be completed. Although it was a significant factor, the on-dock rail facility alone was not responsible for all the growth. Many other elements, some external and some controllable, combined to produce the unprecedented growth in the port's rail business. This paper seeks to describe the environment in which this growth took place; the planning process, which resulted in the design for the new facility; how the new facility's location was selected; and how the type of operation and loading equipment to be used was ultimately determined. Perhaps most important, the paper seeks to convey that the terminal is justified largely on the basis of business, which had already developed as a result of the pilot project, with guardedly optimistic projections and provisions for future expansion.

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• Authors:
  • Lotz, D
• Conference:
  • National Conference on the Intermodal Freight Terminal of the Future
  • Location: New Orleans, Louisiana
  • Date: 1994-12-7 to 1994-12-9
• Publication Date: 1996-6

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures;
• Pagination: pp 110-121
• Monograph Title: INTERMODAL FREIGHT TERMINAL OF THE FUTURE
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Circular
  • Issue Number: 459
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0097-8515

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Conferences; Equipment; Intermodal facilities; Intermodal terminals; Location; Pilot studies; Planning; Railroads; Urban growth
• Identifier Terms: Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
• Uncontrolled Terms: Capacity; Future growth; Pilot projects
• Old TRIS Terms: Intermodal rail facilities; Operating environment
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Highways; Marine Transportation; Planning and Forecasting; Railroads; Terminals and Facilities; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00723847
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS, TRB
• Created Date: Jul 23 1996 12:00AM