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6 Freight is a critical aspect of any economic activity, and freight investments allow freight to move with ease across America's transportation system. A freight investment helps improve current conditions of infrastructure to ease freight movement.
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Introduction 7 and practical information on how entities currently prioritize freight projects. The literature review acted as the surface layer of the project.
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8 Prioritization of Freight Investment Projects Source: Texas A&M Transportation Institute. Figure 2.
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Introduction 9 2018 were collected and analyzed for this project. More freight plans exist; however, only 31 state DOT plans provided a methodology for freight project prioritization.
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10 Prioritization of Freight Investment Projects responses from 40 different agencies, representing every region of the United States. AASHTO distributed the survey by e-mail to the AASHTO Committee on Planning and the Freight Planning Task Force members, requesting that freight planning leaders across all 52 AASHTO member departments (state DOTs)
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Introduction 11 • Agency goals in ranked relation and importance to freight project prioritization (1–7)
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12 Prioritization of Freight Investment Projects literature search, survey, and case examples. The purpose of the agency perspective section is to understand the motivation for freight prioritization.
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