MULTIMODAL/INTERMODAL TRANSPORTATION IN THE UNITED STATES, WESTERN EUROPE, AND LATIN AMERICA - GOVERNMENT PLANS, POLICIES, AND PROGRAMS

This policy research project was funded by and conducted for the Texas Department of Transportation, in cooperation with the Federal Highway Administration. The research was performed during the 1997-98 academic year by 18 graduate students and a faculty project director at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, The University of Texas at Austin. Its purpose was to examine best practices in governmental multimodal/intermodal transport policies, plans, and programs. This task was accomplished by investigating supranational, national, state, and local government multimodal/intermodal activities in North America, Western Europe, and Latin America. The resulting research built upon and benefitted from other policy research projects conducted at the LBJ School in recent years that addressed state multimodal/intermodal transport policies and programs that promote economic growth; port-related state programs and federal legislative issues; state rail policies, plans, and programs; and U.S.-Mexico trade and transportation. Information on laws, public expenditures, policies, plans and programs was obtained by reviewing published material already available or sent by mail, conducting long-distance telephone interviews, making field trips throughout the United States and to foreign countries for on-site interviews, or surfing the Internet.