Transportation Policy

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Transportation Policy
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Federal Policy

• Federal Statutes
• Federal Regulations
• Federal Court Cases

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Metro Transit Hiawatha Line

• Construction funding (in millions )
• Federal 334.3
• State of Minnesota 100.0
• Metropolitan Airports Commission 87.0
• Hennepin County 84.2
• Congestion Mitigation/Air Quality grant 49.8
• Transit capital grant 39.9
• Minnesota Dept of Transportation 20.1
• Total 715.3

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Federal Transportation Statutory Law

• 23 USC Highways
• 33 USC Navigation and Navigable Waters
• 45 USC Railroads
• 46 USC Shipping
• 49 USC Transportation

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49 USC 101. Purpose

• The national objectives of general welfare,
  economic growth and stability, and security of
  the United States require the development of
  transportation policies and programs that
  contribute to providing fast, safe, efficient,
  and convenient transportation at the lowest cost
  consistent with those and other national
  objectives, including the efficient use and
  conservation of the resources of the United
  States
• (Pub. L. 97449, Jan. 12 1983, 96 Stat. 2414
  Pub. L. 102240, title VI,  6018, Dec. 18 1991,
  105 Stat. 2183.)

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49 USC 101. Purpose

• A Department of Transportation is necessary in
  the public interest and
• To ensure the coordinated and effective
  administration of the transportation programs of
  the United States Government
• To make easier the development and improvement of
  coordinated transportation service to be provided
  by private enterprise to the greatest extent
  feasible
• To encourage cooperation of Federal, State, and
  local governments, carriers, labor, and other
  interested persons to achieve transportation
  objectives
• To stimulate technological advances in
  transportation, through research and development
  or otherwise
• To provide general leadership in identifying and
  solving transportation problems 
• To develop and recommend to the President and
  Congress transportation policies and programs to
  achieve transportation objectives considering the
  needs of the public, users, carriers, industry,
  labor, and national defense

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• 33 CFR Navigation and Navigable Waters
• 46 CFR Shipping
• 49 CFR Transportation

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• US Department of Transportation
• Bureau of Transportation Statistics
• Transportation Security Administration

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National Transportation Safety Board

• Report to Congress on July 1 of each year
• Report shall include
• a statistical and analytical summary of the
  transportation accident investigations conducted
  and reviewed by the Board during the prior
  calendar year
• a survey and summary of the recommendations made
  by the Board to reduce the likelihood of
  recurrence of those accidents together with the
  observed response to each recommendation
• a detailed appraisal of the accident
  investigation and accident prevention activities
  of other departments, agencies, and
  instrumentalities of the United States Government
  and State and local governmental authorities
  having responsibility for those activities under
  a law of the United States or a State

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Canals and Inland Waterways

• US Coast Guard
• Army Corps of Engineers
• Maritime Administration
• Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation

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Navigation and Navigable Waters
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• Inland Waterways of the United States (Wikipedia)
• Navigation (Army Corps of Engineers)
• Inland Waterways Research Project (Maritime
  Administration)
• Navigation Data Center (Army Corps)
• Inland Rivers, Ports and Terminals Inc.
• Gulf Intracoastal Waterway (Handbook of Texas)
• History of the Waterways of the Atlantic Coast of
  the United States (Army Corps)
• Cost Recovery on the US Inland Waterway System
  (USDA)

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Mississippi River

• The Mississippi River Navigation System (Army
  Corps)
• Upper Mississippi River (Northeast Midwest
  Institute)
• Mississippi River Navigation Charts (Army Corps)

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Duluth Seaway Port Authority
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Roads
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• The National Highway System (Federal Highway
  Administration)
• Federal Highway Administration
• National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
• Federal Transit Administration
• Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
• Major Roads of the United States (National Atlas)

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23 CFR Highways

• Highway Finances
• Highway Trust Fund
• Highway Financing (GAO)
• Highway Trust Fund (Northeast Midwest
  Institute)
• The Origins of the U.S. Numbered Highway System
  (FHWA)
• U.S. Highways (Robert V. Droz)
• Highway history (FHWA)

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Railway

• Railroad maps (Library of Congress)
• Federal Railroad Administration
• Overview of US Freight Railroads (National Atlas)

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Amtrack
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Class I Railroads (Association of American
Railroads)

• Railroads with annual gross revenues of at least
  250 million (in 1991), according to the U.S.
  Department of Transportation
• Largest long-distance U.S. railroad systems such
  as Union Pacific-Southern Pacific, Norfolk
  Southern, CSX, and Burlington Northern-Santa Fe,
  which own most of the track in the United States
• Since passage of the Staggers Rail Act of 1980,
  aimed at deregulating the once highly-regulated
  industry to make it more efficient and
  cost-competitive, the number of Class I railroads
  has declined through consolidations and mergers,
  from more than 30, to eight in 1998
• This consolidation has concerned many
  agricultural shippersparticularly those who lack
  access to nearby markets or to water
  transportationfearful of higher prices due to
  lack of competition
• List of Class 1 Railroads (Wikipedia)

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• Class II and III Railroads (Minnesota Department
  of Transportation)
• Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range Railway
• Shortline Railroads (Rail USA)
• Minnesota Prairie Line Inc (Twin Cities and
  Western Railroad)
• Twin Cities and Western Railroad (Map)
• Minnesota Northern Railroad

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Dakota, Minnesota Eastern Railroad
(official)Dakota, Minnesota Eastern Railroad
(unofficial)
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Abandoned Railways Rails to Trails

• Court Case (2004)
• Rails to Trails Conservancy
• Parks Trails Council of Minnesota

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• Petroleum (Energy Information Administration)
• Energy Outlook 2005
• Ethanol
• American Coalition for Ethanol
• Governors' Ethanol Coalition
• National Ethanol Vehicle Coalition
• Ethanol Producers and Consumers
• Ethanol Co-Products (National Corngrowers 
  Association)
• Clean Fuels (Fresh Energy)