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Apr 26, 2012
Freight Traffic Crossing the Eastern Continental Divide
Publication: Transportation and Development Institute Congress 2011: Integrated Transportation and Development for a Better Tomorrow
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This paper addresses the problem of moving wholesale and retail goods around the New York City Metropolitan Regional Area. The existing roadways, bridges, and tunnels have already exceeded their capacity, and the author has assumed that freight traffic will continue to grow at the same rate as the population. To address this problem, a freight railroad tunnel under the Hudson River should be constructed to interconnect the west side of the Hudson River to the entire New England Regional Area and also to Long Island. This proposed railroad freight tunnel connection could remove over 30,000 tractor trailers per day, or about 8 million trucks per year, from the congested roadway network and the Hudson River Crossings.
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© 2011 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Published online: Apr 26, 2012
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ASCE Technical Topics:
- Buildings
- Existing buildings
- Freight transportation
- Geotechnical engineering
- Highway and road management
- Highway transportation
- Highways and roads
- Infrastructure
- Rail transportation
- River engineering
- Rivers and streams
- Structural engineering
- Structures (by type)
- Traffic capacity
- Traffic engineering
- Traffic management
- Transportation engineering
- Tunnels
- Urban and regional development
- Urban areas
- Water and water resources
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Robert T. Hintersteiner
P.E.
F.ASCE
Transportation/Forensic Engineer
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