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Title: NORTH AMERICAN FREE TRADE AGREEMENT TRUCK HIGHWAY CORRIDORS: U.S.-MEXICAN TRUCK RIVERS OF TRADE
Accession Number: 00755056
Record Type: Component
Record URL: Availability: Transportation Research Board Business Office 500 Fifth Street, NW Find a library where document is available Abstract: The dramatic growth in trade between the United States and Mexico from $12.39 billion to $56.8 billion of U.S. exports and $17.56 billion to $73 billion of U.S. imports between 1977 and 1996 and the implementation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) have focused attention on the impact that the truck-transported portion of this trade has on U.S. highways. State and federal highway administrators are concerned with the planning implications this additional unexpected traffic may have on the transportation infrastructure. Public advocacy groups want additional highway funds to promote one NAFTA highway corridor over others in an effort to stimulate additional economic development. Most of these groups advocate a north-south route through the United States between Canada and Mexico that follows the alignment of an existing federal highway number. Research conducted by the U.S. government under the 1991 Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act has failed to define NAFTA highway corridors adequately, leaving policy makers with little concrete information with which to combat the rhetoric of the trade highway corridor advocacy groups. A report is provided on research critical to the needs of both highway administrators and corridor advocacy groups, namely, the location of U.S.-Mexican trade highway corridors and the trade truck density along these corridors.
Supplemental Notes: This paper appears in Transportation Research Record No. 1613, Freight Transportation: Planning, Motor Carrier Size and Weight Issues, International Trade, and Hazardous Materials Transport.
Language: English
Corporate Authors: Transportation Research Board 500 Fifth Street, NW Authors: McCray, J PPagination: p. 71-78
Publication Date: 1998
Serial: ISBN: 0309064589
Features: Figures
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TRT Terms: Identifier Terms: Geographic Terms: Subject Areas: Freight Transportation; Highways; Motor Carriers; Planning and Forecasting; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning
Files: TRIS, TRB
Created Date: Oct 14 1998 12:00AM
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