TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1993//
TI  - Improving Michigan's border crossing railroad infrastructure: implications for Metropolitan Detroit
JO  - Transportation research record
A1  - Schweiterman, Joseph P.
SP  - 58
EP  - 58
VL  - 1395
IS  - 
N2  - Along the Michigan-Canada border, government officials and business leaders are engaged in a highly politicized and divisive debate over Canadian National-North America's railroad tunnel project under the St. Clair River. The 6,000-ft tunnel, to link Port Huron, Michigan, and Sarnia, Ontario, is to be Michigan's first transborder facility capable of handling double-stack containers and other oversized rail cars. However, Detroit officials, concerned about their city's status as a rail hub, favor an alternative tunnel location in the Detroit-Windsor area. The economic and social implications of the two tunnel alternatives for the Detroit-Windsor metropolitan area are assessed. Using a methodological approach developed by the Federal Railroad Administration, the results show that the metropolitan Detroit area stands to gain $5.5 million annually if the tunnel is completed as scheduled and $4.5 million annually if the tunnel is built in the immediate Detroit area. Broad lessons are discussed about the municipal implications of rail infrastructure projects--lessons relevant in the analysis of rail projects across the country.       Record URL:         http://onlinepubs.trb.org/Onlinepubs/trr/1993/1395/1395-008.pdf<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0361-1981
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -