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Source: PANYNJ; Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Transportation Atlas of the United States. The PANYNJ has an extensive array of assets covering several transportation modes, including airports, bridges and tunnels, transit rail systems, port terminals, and real estate.

Author: Dr. Jean-Paul Rodrigue 1. Regional Setting The role of New York as one of the world’s truly global cities and the main gateway of the Eastern Seaboard of North America is widely acknowledged. This role, which emerged at the beginning of the 19th century, was mainly the consequence of

Year Merger (Resulting Firm) 1980 Burlington Northern and St. Louis – San Francisco (Burlington Northern) 1980 Seaboard Coast Line, Chesapeake and Ohio, and Baltimore and Ohio (CSX) 1982 Louisville and Nashville and CSX (CSX) 1982 Union Pacific, Western Pacific, Missouri Pacific (Union Pacific) 1982 Southern Railway and Norfolk and Western

Author: Dr. Brian Slack 1. Introduction Rail deregulation in the United States is a good example of how a policy shift can produce significant changes in the economic health of an industry, and how its structure may be changed. In the United States, the rail industry has since its inception

Source: adapted from National Research Council (2008) Potential impacts of climate change on U.S. Transportation. Transportation Research Board. Elements associated with climate change have an array of potential impacts on transport operations and infrastructures.

Author: Dr. Jean-Paul Rodrigue Climate change is expected to have notable impacts on transport systems, mainly because of the risks of rising sea levels, more precipitation events, and heat waves. 1. Expected Impacts of Climate Change Climate change has occurred throughout the world’s climatic history with cooling (e.g. Ice Ages)

The influence of transportation over the location of economic activities takes place over four main aspects, at times interdependent: