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Who should use this guide?
This guide has been prepared for use by public officials at all levels.
Economic development, planning, and other government entities and
elected officials at the local, regional, and state level recognize
that trade and freight activity result in employment and investment
opportunities and so have increasingly sought new strategies
for attracting freight-related activities to their communities. How
transportation and freight facility requirements interact with other
economic factors to influence location decisions made by the private
sector is typically somewhat less understood by the public sector.
This guide condenses and
focuses research findings of
NCFRP Project 23 with the
specific aim of providing local
officials with the background
and understanding with which
to explore, attract, and prepare
for expanded industrial and
freight facility development
in their jurisdictions as well as
providing a practical manual for
understanding freight issues and dynamics.
Economic development agencies have sometimes seen transportation
infrastructure as a key driver to many such location decisions. Some
may have read about intermodal site success stories, such as Columbus
Inland Port in Ohio or Alliance Industrial Park in Texas, and their
ability to attract new business. Less understood, perhaps, is how the
combination of transportation, economic, and other location drivers
makes them successful attractors of business and investment.
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