Affordable freight transportation is a requirement for survival and growth for rural industries. In many cases this is challenging to accomplish without the presence of freight rail systems. Even though transportation by itself is not a sufficient condition for economic development, the availability of transportation infrastructure is regarded as one of the essential factors. Michigan's railroad network is unique in its operations and track mileage ownership as well as its geographic orientation within the Great Lakes region. Separated into two peninsulas, each with its own unique operating characteristics, the analysis of the states rail network as a whole becomes quite difficult. In addition, the geographic separation and lack of rail connection between the two peninsulas does not facilitate peninsula-to-peninsula rail traffic. The result is that the State of Michigan has two separate rail systems, each with links to the U.S. national and Canadian rail networks, and with quite different system properties and ownership patterns. This study investigated the transportation system in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan (U.P.), concentrating on identifying challenges faced by rural freight rail service providers and shippers along light-density lines and on identifying tools and methods that facilitate the current and future rail and multimodal transportation alternatives in the study area.
Rural Freight Rail and Multimodal Transportation Improvements - the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Final Report
2014
193 pages
Report
No indication
English
Transportation , Railroad Transportation , Business & Economics , Multimodal transportation systems , Freight transportation , Rail transportation , Michigan , Businesses , Commodities , Economic development , Great Lakes , Rural areas , Services , Shipping , Surveys , Transportation networks , Upper Peninsula of Michigan
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