The following case studies were examined in the report for local and regional transportation, economic, and quality of life impacts, benefits and costs. Each of these cases was then highlighted and discussed briefly in the guidebook.
The case studies were selected using the following criteria:
- In general, an attempt was made to make sure that there was a balance in the geographic representation of the case studies across the U.S.
- We selected facilities and projects that showed a range of project development, from projects that have been in operation for many years to facilities that are in the final stages of development.
- The Team selected facilities that included multi-modal transportation issues.
- The Team selected facilities where there was sufficient publicly available information available and project participants who were willing to share information as part of a publicly available research project.
- All of the case studies that were chosen are generally considered to be successful freight facilities. By selecting successful projects, the information described pertaining to site selection criteria and transportation/economic impacts provides greater value than if projects were selected that were not developed or had not been successful with their implementation.
For more information on the process used to examine these case studies as well as information on the case studies themselves, please see chapter 8 of the full report on the Documents page.
The text in the following pages are excerpts from the guidebook and report.
Please click HERE for the detailed case study overview excerpt from the report. |
