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原文传递 PUBLIC-SECTOR FINANCING IN INTERMODAL FREIGHT TRANSPORTATION.

题名：	PUBLIC-SECTOR FINANCING IN INTERMODAL FREIGHT TRANSPORTATION.
作者：	Petersen-JE
关键词：	INTERMODAL-TRANSPORTATION; FREIGHT-TRANSPORTATION; TRANSPORTATION-POLICY; OPTIONS-; PUBLIC-SECTOR; FINANCING-; INFRASTRUCTURE-; INTERMODAL-FACILITIES
摘要：	Since no national public financing program has ever been designed specifically for intermodal freight transportation, much less institutionalized, it suffers from a lack of "organizing principles". There is no standardization of financing types and techniques, as is usually found in the analysis of an individual mode of transportation. At the same time, because the concept of intermodalism deals with making several components integrate to accomplish a purpose, it offers one of the better examples of blending abutting, but diverse, interests and the interplay of a variety of economic motivations. That same mixing will be found in the financing packages put together to date. The approach taken in this paper is to examine first the rationale for public financial involvement in intermodal freight projects and then to examine what it takes to make such an intermodal project "financible", offering a number of examples and analogies. It is assumed that there is a large degree of public interest in making the freight flow better through a particular facility, but it is not assumed that public money will necessarily be forthcoming. Rather, the practical difficulties of rounding up sufficient money to make intermodal improvements are described, and how the public sector might help in the process is discussed. Since no specific aid programs have been targeted to intermodal freight projects, the descriptive parts of this paper necessarily illustrate the financing problems and solutions with examples taken both from generic infrastructure projects and the patchwork of specific solutions that are now being devised to fit the occasional intermodal project. Much of the emphasis is on how leveraging limited amounts of public money can entice primarily private-sector investments.
总页数：	Transportation Research Board Special Report. 1998. (252) pp258-313 (Refs.)
报告类型：	科技报告