01353743

Monograph

http://www.trb.org/Publications/Blurbs/166070.aspx

This study examined approaches to establishing multi-state freight transportation organizations that can develop and implement long-term investment plans. Emphasis was placed on the legal and financial requirements as well as the composition, structure, and decision-making facets of the organization. Sixty-five multi-state organizations were identified, researched, and classified by their legal structure and ability to carry out their intended functions, including policy making, planning, capital investment, operations, regulation, and research and education. The review suggested three models might support multi-state freight organizations: multi-state freight organizations organized and incentivized pursuant to federal grant conditions administered by a federal project office; organizations created through interstate compacts; and organizations enabled as federally chartered corporations. An analysis of the legal framework and experience with these approaches concluded that creating multi-state freight organizations through a federally chartered organization might be the most practical approach to achieving organizations that can develop and implement long-term investment plans. The key problem identified in this report was the difficulty of funding and operating multi-state freight institutions across state lines in multiple jurisdictions.

NCFRP Project 36(03)

English

34p

2001

NCFRP Web-Only Document

9780309430579

Contractor Final Report

Digital/other

Tables (3)

Capital investments; Decision making; Education; Financial responsibility; Freight transportation; Legal factors; Long range planning; Operations; Organizations; Planning; Policy making

Multi-state organizations

Administration and Management; Freight Transportation; I10: Economics and Administration; I70: Traffic and Transport

TRIS, TRB

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