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Title: RAILROAD FREIGHT TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH NEEDS. PROCEEDINGS OF A CONFERENCE, BETHESDA, MARYLAND, JULY 12-14, 1993
Accession Number: 00662847
Record Type: Monograph
Availability: Find a library where document is available Abstract: The primary objective of this conference was to identify railroad freight transportation research needs, opportunities, and priorities--for both the public and private sectors--during the next 10 to 15 years. Four major recurring themes emerged during the conference: customer focus, appropriate use of information, integration among train system components and between technology and people, and the need for cooperation at many different levels--public-private, industry-suppliers, management-labor, and domestic-international. Guided by these themes, conference participants focused on research needs in four major categories: infrastructure, including track, vehicles, and track-train dynamics; command, control, communication, and information systems; service management; and energy and environment. Safety was identified as a critical topic and considered as an element of each major category. Other cross-cutting issues, such as future market requirements, productivity and cost, human factors, and advanced technologies were also discussed, as appropriate, under each research category. Research needs were considered within the broader framework of a future vision of the railroad industry. Future trends in transportation and logistics were examined from the viewpoints of the railroad industry, the research community, and shippers to help establish this future vision and provide the basis for identification of needed research. Commissioned papers in each research category and invited presentations on future trends in transportation and logistics provided points of departure for discussion at the conference. Conferees were organized into five discussion groups and instructed to identify key issues and areas for research under each category. Research priorities were identified within each subject area, but no attempt was made to determine priorities across subject areas.
Supplemental Notes: 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.
Language: English
Corporate Authors: Transportation Research Board 500 Fifth Street, NW Pagination: 157 p.
Publication Date: 1994
Conference:
Railroad Freight Transportation Research Needs
Location:
Bethesda, Maryland ISBN: 0309055032
Media Type: Digital/other
Features: Figures; References; Tables
TRT Terms:
Communication systems; Conferences; Costs; Energy; Environmental impacts; Environmental quality; Freight transportation; Governments; Human factors; Information systems; Infrastructure; Logistics; Management; Markets; Private enterprise; Productivity; Railroads; Research; Safety; Strategic planning; Technological innovations; Trend (Statistics)
Old TRIS Terms: Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Energy; Environment; Finance; Freight Transportation; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Railroads; Research; Safety and Human Factors
Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
Created Date: Jul 15 1994 12:00AM
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