Full Title: Maritime Freight Transportation, National Economic Recovery, and Global Sustainability
Author(s): T. Wakeman, M. Bomba
Publisher(s): TR News
Publication Date: July 1, 2010
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Description (excerpt):
Shifts in the trade and transport environment—at the local, national, and international levels—pose a dynamic challenge and point to the need for a strategic freight plan. In addition, significant impacts on the system can come from two sources: first, from the lack of adequate intermodal transport capability; second, from emerging challenges to energy use and sustainability. Policies are needed to ensure that the nation’s marine transportation system (MTS) will be ready to operate in the rapidly changing environment of domestic and international goods movement.