Rail Served Intermodal Terminals in Rural Regions: Challenges and Opportunities
Rail intermodal service has been growing in the U.S. over the past thirty years. Recently U.S. domestic rail intermodal operations have been growing at a faster pace than international service. Can the new dynamic of growing domestic intermodal traffic provide opportunities for the development of smaller intermodal terminals in rural areas of the U.S.? This paper discusses the challenges, such as lane balance, frequency of service, minimum lifts, and terminal consolidation by class 1 railroads that rural regions face in establishing an intermodal terminal and service. Examples of successful and unsuccessful rural intermodal service are explored.
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Supplemental Notes:
- This paper was sponsored by TRB committee AT050 Intermodal Freight Terminal Design and Operations.
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Corporate Authors:
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Authors:
- Stewart, Richard
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Conference:
- Transportation Research Board 94th Annual Meeting
- Location: Washington DC, United States
- Date: 2015-1-11 to 2015-1-15
- Date: 2015
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: Digital/other
- Features: Figures; References; Tables;
- Pagination: 17p
- Monograph Title: TRB 94th Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Domestic transportation; Intermodal terminals; Railroad transportation; Rural areas
- Geographic Terms: United States
- Subject Areas: Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Railroads; Terminals and Facilities; I70: Traffic and Transport;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01551849
- Record Type: Publication
- Report/Paper Numbers: 15-4837
- Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
- Created Date: Jan 27 2015 11:24AM