FREIGHT FACILITY COMPENDIUM

As a first step in developing a planning program for freight transport in the Chicago region, the Chicago Area Transportation Study (CATS) and the Lake-Porter County Regional Transportation and Planning Commission have surveyed the local freight industry to inventory the freight network and to determine the nature of private planning in the region. This report synthesizes results of that survey. It is a compendium of the local freight industry's projected facility investment programs. It provides a forecast of freight facility development through 1975 based on the transport industry's current perception of the regional demand for its services. The report concludes that private planning tends to perpetuate existing patterns of location and service. Comprehensive, cooperative, multimodal planning, which provides a good climate for innovation, may yield guidelines for facility investment which will promote greater efficiency in the regional freight complex. The long-range freight planning effort being formulated by the CATS is directed toward this goal.

• Corporate Authors:

  Chicago Area Transportation Study

  300 West Adams Street
  Chicago, IL  United States  60606

  Lake-Porter County, Indiana

  Regional Transportation and Planning Commission, 8149 Kennedy Avenue
  Highland, IN  United States  46322
• Authors:
  • Blaze, J R
  • Behrens, J W
  • Creed, S L
  • Degeeter, R
  • Thorne, N R
• Publication Date: 1972-4

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 100 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Freight handling; Freight terminals; Network analysis (Planning); Railroad terminals; Railroad yards; Transportation; Transportation planning
• Identifier Terms: Chicago Area Transportation Study
• Geographic Terms: Chicago (Illinois)
• Old TRIS Terms: Freight operations
• Subject Areas: Terminals and Facilities; Transportation (General);

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00057343
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Chicago Area Transportation Study
• Report/Paper Numbers: CATS 354-04 Tech. Rpt.
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Aug 28 1976 12:00AM