Global Intermodal Freight State of Readiness for the 21st Century. Conference Proceedings. Held in Long Beach, California on February 23-26, 2000.

摘要

The Transportation Research Board (TRB), with support from the U.S. Department of Defense and the U.S. Department of Transportation, hosted this conference on February 24-27, 2000, in Long Beach, California, to focus attention on the state of readiness accommodating national and global intermodal freight movement in the 21st century. Through presentations, discussion, and intermodal freight transportation 'report card,' conference speakers and participants assessed the progress that has been made since 1994, when the National Commission on Intermodal Transportation submitted a report to Congress with recommendations for developing the U.S. intermodal transportation system. The program also included an intermodal vision for the future that helped frame discussion of the challenges and opportunities facing the public, commercial, and defense sectors. Panel sessions focused on a range of topics critical to global freight movement: institutional relationships, safety, cargo liability, national security and defense, infrastructure capacity and connectivity, trade policy, financing, information technology, environmental issues, service reliability and operations, and technology and labor.