OTPa Freight System Action Plan

OnTrackPennsylvania represents a shift—from discussing the need for coordinated transportation planning—to actually designing, committing to, and implementing an optimal freight transportation Action Plan. This Action Plan will be built the only way it can for a plan this important to work—by those needed to implement the plan collaborating alongside all those who are affected by it, i.e. transportation providers, shippers, developers, planners, suppliers, funders, and citizens.

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Norbridge Consulting: Inhibitors to Rail Carload and Intermodal Market Share Growth

Date:

01/2009

Slide show from Norbridge Consulting, includes the results of interviews with forty transportation buyers get their opinions on how their modal decisions changed when fuel costs spiked in the first half of 2008.

Slides 5 - 9

Step 2

Slides provide facts to describe the benefits of using rail systems to transport freight.

Slides 16 - 19

Step 3

Slides demonstrate reasons that rail services was considered an inhibitor to growth (i.e. describes its inefficiencies).

Slides 21 - 33 & 35 - 44

Step 3

Slides details factors that those interviewed for the study saw as inhibitors to using intermodal and carload freight systems, and shows how using rail service can circumvent these factors.

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