Strategic Issues Facing Transportation, Volume 1: Scenario Planning for Freight Transportation Infrastructure Investment (2013) / Chapter Skim
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57 The previous section compared the scenario planning process used across the six scenario planning workshops. In this section, we compare the results obtained from the six workshops.
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58 Scenario Planning for Freight transportation infrastructure investment 5.2 Comparison of Results from Evaluation Sessions The results from voting in the evaluation sessions in five of the workshops are summarized by types of segments, and presented in Appendix E, Exhibits 8 through 12. Each exhibit has three sections: a, b, and c.
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Future Freight Flows Workshops: Results 59 – Scenario Millions of Markets was not used in POLB; scenario Global Marketplace was not used in GDOT. Therefore, the cells in the POLB and GDOT columns in rows MM and GM, respectively, are blank.
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60 Scenario Planning for Freight transportation infrastructure investment 5.2.1 Observations from Comparison of Evaluations Across Workshops The sections below describe the positive and negative voting results for the five evaluation workshops. The analysis combined the common infrastructure elements into three categories: gateway, corridor, or connector.
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Future Freight Flows Workshops: Results 61 5.2.1.2 Corridors Corridors were the most common segments in each the Future Freight Flows workshops. With the exception of the U.S.DOT workshop, at least 50% of the segments evaluated in all workshops were corridors.
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62 Scenario Planning for Freight transportation infrastructure investment The connectors received mixed evaluations in the Global Marketplace scenario. They were found to be highly useful investments to make in the POLB workshop, but somewhat not useful investments in the DVRPC and U.S.DOT workshops.
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Future Freight Flows Workshops: Results 63 having a national freight policy and funding to take freight planning out of regional provincial policies, developing policies to improve flow of goods across the U.S.-Mexico border, and repeal or revision of the Jones Act (Merchant Marine Act of 1920) , which prohibits foreign shops from carrying cargo between U.S.
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64 Scenario Planning for Freight transportation infrastructure investment The other commonly identified initiatives included creating policies to reduce the environmental impact of freight transportation (six sessions) , policies related to land use, specifically setting aside industrial land for creating long-haul distribution and multimodal facilities, and leveraging information technology to improve freight flows.
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