Railroads and Transportation: Our Future Options

Congressman Steven LaTourette, Chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee's Railroad Subcommittee, offers concluding remarks to the Workshop on Research to Enhance Rail Network Performance. He points out rail productivity gains, safety gains, and the growth of short-line and regional railroads since the Staggers Act of 1980. Other gains include growth of the rail freight business and railroad fuel efficiency. He comments on intermodalism, technological innovations, railroad capital improvements, investments in freight rail and passenger rail capacity, public-private partnerships, air pollution reduction, and the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (SAFETEA-LU).

• Record URL:
  http://www.trb.org/Publications/Blurbs/158419.aspx
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• Authors:
  • LaTourette, Steven C
• Conference:
  • Workshop on Research to Enhance Rail Network Performance
  • Location: Washington DC, United States
  • Date: 2006-4-5 to 2006-4-6
• Publication Date: 2007

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: References;
• Pagination: pp 91-96
• Monograph Title: Research to Enhance Rail Network Performance
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Board Conference Proceedings on the Web
  • Issue Number: 3
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
• Publication flags:

  Open Access (libre)

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Air quality management; Capital investments; Economic growth; Freight service; Fuel consumption; Future; Intermodal transportation; Passenger service; Productivity; Public private partnerships; Railroad safety; Railroad transportation; Regional railroads; Short line railroads; Technological innovations
• Identifier Terms: Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users; Staggers Rail Act of 1980
• Uncontrolled Terms: Railroad capacity
• Subject Areas: Economics; Energy; Freight Transportation; Operations and Traffic Management; Passenger Transportation; Railroads; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01046030
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS, TRB
• Created Date: Apr 10 2007 1:21PM