This report provides practical tools for public and private stakeholders to develop, preserve, protect, and enhance freight transportation infrastructure and routes for all modes of transportation. The report provides guidance to decision makers involved in freight facility operations, freight transportation planning, and land use on how to avoid conflicting land uses, or mitigate existing ones, by (1) providing information about freight transportation and its importance to people’s everyday lives; (2) illustrating the types of conflicts between freight and other land uses and their consequences; and (3) providing tools and resources to preserve facilities and corridors, including prevention or resolution of these conflicts. An innovative contribution of the research is the development of a website, EnvisionFreight.com, which is intended to complement this report. For many of the topics covered in this report, more detailed materials are available on the website. References to the website are provided in this report where relevant. The appendixes to the contractor’s final report are included herein on CRP-CD-103 and are available for download on the TRB website as an ISO image at http://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/ncfrp/ncfrp_rpt_016.iso. (Author/publisher)
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