Eastern Colorado Mobility Study
The study has been undertaken to assist the Transportation Commission of Colorado in making investment decisions regarding infrastructure improvements to enhance freight mobility in a large part of the state. The study area includes all of the west and Colorado's borders on the north, east and south.
Note that the entire Report is a (PDF) file:
Colorado Study

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Smartway Transport Partnership
The SmartWay Transport Partnership is a collaborative voluntary program between EPA and the freight industry that will increase the energy efficiency and energy security of our country while significantly reducing air pollution and greenhouse gases. The Partnership creates strong market-based incentives that challenge companies shipping products, and the truck and rail companies delivering these products, to improve the environmental performance of their freight operations. SmartWay Transport partners improve their energy efficiency, save money, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve air quality.
http://www.epa.gov/smartway/

Environmental Performance of Tanker Designs in Collision and Grounding
Method for Comparison
Special Report 259
To reduc the risk of oil spills from accidents, the U.S. requires that tankers calling on U.S. ports in the future be fitted with a double hull. The world tanker fleet is changing to double hulls in accordance with both U.S. law and a similar provision in an international agreement. Even as this change has been occuring, however, some organizations have proposed alternative designs as equivalent or superior to a double hull in preventing the outflow of oil in an accident.
http://trb.org/publications/sr/sr259.pdf

AASHTO and METRANS Transportation Research Center
Transportation, International Trade, and Economic Competitiveness
October 25, 2002, Long Beach California
NCHRP Project 20-24 (23)B NCHRP Project 20-24 (23)B (PDF)

California’s Global Gateways: Trends and Issues
Public Policy Institute of California
2004
The ability to transport goods efficiently and the equality of trade infrastructure have become key determinants of international competitiveness. At the same time that political barriers to trade have dropped, the transportation requirements of manufacturers have become more complex. Multinational firms rely on fast, flexible, and reliable shipping to link far-flung plants into a well-integrated manufacturing chain. Transportation breakdowns or problems as simple as simple as port congestion can idle an entire global production network. In this environment, the capacity of ocean ports, airports, and multimodal linkages become critical to a region’s competitive position. These issues are especially in California, whose airports and seaports are among the busiest in country. Los Angeles and San Francisco International Airports rand second and third (behind only New York’s JFK International Airport) in terms of the value of imports and exports processed, and the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach are the two largest port complexes in the country. Combined, these two ports handle a greater volume than all of the world’s ports other than Hong Kong and Singapore.
http://www.ppic.org/content/pubs/R_404JHR.pdf PPIC-- PDF

Toward Improved Intermodal Freight Transport in Europe and the United States: Next Steps
Report of an Eno Transportation Foudation
The growth of the global economy, advance s in information technologies, and improved communications networks have contributed to major changes in transport and logistics. Just-in-time inventory systems, supply-chain management, outsourcing of logistics, and intermodal transport have grown hand-in-hand with these advances in technology and economic interaction. Further economic growth demands that we continue to advance international intermodal transport.
Europe and the U.S. Next Steps

AASHTO EURO SCAN
Europe in a Changing Global Market: The Challenges

The past 50 years have seen dramatic change in Europe; how the Europeans see themselves and their role in the world. Starting with the Treaty of Paris in 1951 that established the European Coal and Steel Community to the latest Treaty of Nice, Europe has evolved institutional relationships and frameworks that have created an economic powerhouse. Important throughout these past 50 years was the creation of an internal economic market that provided barrier free access to all member states. Those interviewed during this scan used terms such as “harmonization” and “liberalization” to describe the evolution of the domestic market. In essence what they meant was the removal of barriers and constraints to market access and movement within the European Union, resulting in an integrated and commercially viable economic market second to none in the world.

Latin America is a key trading region for the United States, Canada, and Mexico, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) countries. The Federal Highway Administration, American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, and National Cooperative Highway Research Program sponsored a scanning study to examine characteristics of trade flows between NAFTA and Latin American countries and learn how countries handle trade-related transportation infrastructure, border crossings, and freight security. The delegation observed that while the countries visited—Bahamas, Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, Panama, and Mexico—depend heavily on trade, the economic downturn has aggravated financial and infrastructure challenges in those countries and limited trade expansion. Ports are major centers of trade for the countries, and the Panama Canal is emerging as the region’s most strategic facility for NAFTA countries.
The scanning team’s recommendations include continued monitoring of the Latin American market and the impact of trade on transportation infrastructure. The team also recommends that NAFTA countries work closely with Latin American countries and port authorities to coordinate border crossing and freight security strategies.

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