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Title: IMPROVING MICHIGAN'S BORDER-CROSSING RAILROAD INFRASTRUCTURE: IMPLICATIONS FOR METROPOLITAN DETROIT
Accession Number: 00637858
Record Type: Component
Availability: Find a library where document is available Abstract: Along the Michigan-Canada border, government officials and business leaders are engaged in a highly politicized and divisive debate over Canadian National-North America's railroad tunnel project under the St. Clair River. The 6,000-ft tunnel, to link Port Huron, Michigan, and Sarnia, Ontario, is to be Michigan's first transborder facility capable of handling double-stack containers and other oversized rail cars. However, Detroit officials, concerned about their city's status as a rail hub, favor an alternative tunnel location in the Detroit-Windsor area. The economic and social implications of the two tunnel alternatives for the Detroit-Windsor metropolitan area are assessed. Using a methodological approach developed by the Federal Railroad Administration, the results show that the metropolitan Detroit area stands to gain $5.5 million annually if the tunnel is completed as scheduled and $4.5 million annually if the tunnel is built in the immediate Detroit area. Broad lessons are discussed about the municipal implications of rail infrastructure projects--lessons relevant in the analysis of rail projects across the country.
Supplemental Notes: This paper appears in Transportation Research Record No. 1395, Finance, Taxation, Pricing, Economic Analysis, Socioeconomics, Education, and Management. Distribution, posting, or copying of this PDF is strictly prohibited without written permission of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academy of Sciences. Unless otherwise indicated, all materials in this PDF are copyrighted by the National Academy of Sciences. Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved
Monograph Title: Finance, taxation, pricing, economic analysis, socioeconomics, education, and management Monograph Accession #: 01403230
Language: English
Authors: Schwieterman, Joseph PPagination: p. 58-64
Publication Date: 1993
Serial: ISBN: 0309054656
Features: Figures
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; References
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; Tables
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TRT Terms: Uncontrolled Terms: Geographic Terms: Old TRIS Terms: Subject Areas: Economics; Environment; Highways; Railroads; Society; I10: Economics and Administration
Files: TRIS, TRB
Created Date: Oct 20 1993 12:00AM
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