FHWA Study Tour for European Intermodal Programs: Planning, Policy and Technology

FHWA-PL-94-038

In September 1993, a team of four government and state transportation association representatives made a two-week scanning trip to Belgium, the Netherlands, and Germany to discuss and report on European experiences with intermodal freight transportation policies and systems. The objective was to observe and document information on European Community (EC) Csometimes referred to as European Union or EUCmethods and experiences in the planning and administration, system development, environmental compliance, financing, marketing, and operation of increasingly complex and capital-intensive intermodal freight systems and facilities. To the extent that such information was pertinent to the public and private sector transportation community in the United States, it would be documented in the form of a summary report.

The trip was sponsored and managed by the Transportation Technology Evaluation Center (TTEC) of Loyola College in Baltimore, Maryland, via contractual arrangements with the Office of International Programs of the Federal Highway Administration. Participants included team leader George Schoener, Federal Highway Administration; Otto Sonefeld, Program Director, American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials; observor Richard Roberts, Chief of Transportation Planning and Policy, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey; and Gerhardt Muller, Senior Intermodal Strategist of the Interstate Transportation Department of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and trip facilitator for TTEC.

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