Analysis of Public Benefits for Pennsylvania Rail Freight Funding

Building on best practices from other states and Pennsylvania’s existing evaluation processes, this project developed an assessment tool to help the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) analyze the public benefits resulting from the investment of public funds in support of private freight-rail investments. This report describes the development and use of the tool (Pennsylvania Rail Benefits Estimator) to evaluate grant applications for freight rail funding.

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• Record URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/18649/dot_18649_DS1.pdf?
• Supplemental Notes:
  • Cover title: Analysis of Public Benefits for Pennsylvania Freight Rail Funding
• Corporate Authors:

  Cambridge Systematics, Incorporated

  4800 Hampden Lane
  Bethesda, MD  United States  20814

  Pennsylvania Department of Transportation

  Bureau of Planning and Research
  400 North Street, 6th Floor
  Harrisburg, PA  United States  17120-0064

  Federal Highway Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • Ludlow, Donald
  • Schermann, Jon
  • Zorrilla, Juan
• Publication Date: 2011-1-4

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Edition: Final Report
• Features: Appendices; Figures; Tables;
• Pagination: 57p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Economic benefits; Evaluation and assessment; Financing; Freight trains; Freight transportation; Investments; Railroads
• Uncontrolled Terms: Benefit analysis tool
• Geographic Terms: Pennsylvania
• Subject Areas: Economics; Finance; Freight Transportation; Railroads; I10: Economics and Administration; I70: Traffic and Transport;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01335443
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: FHWA-PA-2011-002-080910, Report No. 7827.030
• Contract Numbers: 355I01- 080910
• Files: NTL, TRIS, USDOT, STATEDOT
• Created Date: Apr 12 2011 4:30PM