Impact of Increased Freight Traffic on Pavement Maintenance Costs

Principal Investigator:

Richard Stewart, rstewart@uwsuper.edu (other projects)

Co-Principal Investigator:

• Chris Williams, rwilliam@iastate.edu (other projects)
• Anthony Pagano (other projects)

Project Status: In Progress

Start Date: 08/30/2005
End Date: 08/30/2006


Research Objective: The research team will conduct three case studies of representative short line rail segments in Wisconsin, Michigan's Upper Peninsula, and Minnesota. The study will determine current freight volumes on the rail segments of the selected rail routes and what the corresponding trucking volumes would be if this rail traffic were diverted to nearby roads.

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