The shift away from the use of a single mode of transportation for a shipment in the favor of an intermodal approach is an important trend in contemporary freight transportation. Until the 1980s, intermodal services attracted cost conscious shippers of low value, non-time sensitive commodities. During the 1980s and early 1990s, however, intermodal providers developed high quality transportation packages equivalent to and even superior to the offerings of any individual mode. One interesting aspect of the shift to intermodalism is the corresponding impact on transportation safety. By definition, the use on intermodalism shifts traffic from the highway mode to rail over some portion of a distribution channel. Every highway trailer shifted to intermodal service represents a reduction in combination truck traffic on the highway system. Decreasing truck traffic on the highways should have a positive impact on highway safety. The goal of this study was to identify and, where possible, assess the potential implications of increased intermodal transportation on highway safety. The research attempts to quantify the effect of rail-highway intermodalism on truck VMT and the resulting effect on highway accidents.
Intermodal Freight Transportation and Highway Safety
1995
62 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
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