This report was funded by and prepared for the Office of the Secretary of Transportation (OST) of the United States Department of Transportation (U.S. DOT). It was commissioned by OST as part of an effort to develop guidelines for evaluating large-scale freight projects that span the interest of multiple modal agencies (Federal Highway Administration, Federal Railroad Administration, Federal Aviation Administration, and Federal Maritime Administration).
It was prepared by the team of Cambridge Systematics, Inc., Economic Development Research Group, Inc., and Boston Logistics Group, Inc.
The authors of this document are:
The materials developed by the authors – including analysis steps, impact measures and available tools – were designed to build upon and complement concepts developed in a variety of other reports and guides that also address the economic impacts of multimodal freight investments. Those documents are listed in the bibliography at the back of this document.
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