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==== Introduction ==== | |||
VitalRail is a comprehensive strategy for enhancing the sustainability and productivity of our industrial systems by expanding freight rail service. The need and opportunity for railroad development to address environmental challenges and transportation efficiency has never been greater. North America enjoys perhaps the world's most productive freight rail system, but the industry’s $115 billion annual revenue starkly contrasts with the freight trucking industry’s $1 trillion yearly revenue. | |||
Yet rail offers superior space, energy, and capital efficiencies, and growing freight railroads will contribute cascading benefits to all stakeholders. Consider the impact of space efficiency on highway capacity: a one-mile-long train moves the same goods as a 27-mile convoy of trucks on the road. And rail's energy efficiency allows it to move freight on 1/4 to 1/2 the fuel and emissions of trucks. | |||
However, we need more from railroads than they can do themselves. Fortunately, railroads do not need a government bailout; they outperform many other industries. That stability, combined with rail technology’s inherent efficiencies, will deliver a high return on investment when the involved stakeholder groups work together to expand the rail transportation system. | |||
==== VitalRail Stakeholders ==== | |||
Collaboration among stakeholders is fundamental to achieving this tremendous growth opportunity for railroads, rail-related service providers, and the industries and communities they serve. VitalRail engages fourteen “Interdependent Stakeholder Groups”: Class I Railroad Executives, Class II and III Railroad Leaders, Investors and Banks, Rail Employees, Citizens, Customers, Suppliers, Economic Developers, Transportation Planners, Land Developers, Realtors and Site Selectors, Researchers, Other Transportation Services and Modes, and Elected Leaders. [[VitalRail Stakeholders|Learn more about Stakeholders]]. | |||
==== IntelliConferences ==== | |||
VitalRail convenes stakeholder IntelliConferences to plan at the level needed to advance this deeply interconnected, invaluable industry. [[About OnTrackNorthAmerica|OnTrackNorthAmerica]] has identified an initial set of essential dialogues for expanding North America’s freight rail service. | |||
* [[Rail Growth Capitalization]] | |||
* [[Rail Business Culture Transformation]] | |||
*[[Rail Management – Rail Labor]] | |||
* [[Containerized International Freight]] | |||
*[[Revitalizing the Rail Carload System]] | |||
*[[Rail Energy Efficiency]] | |||
*[[Freight Transportation Land Use]] | |||
*[[Rail Technology Adoption]] | |||
*[[Rail Trucking Coordination]] | |||
*[[Rail Regulatory Excellence]] | |||
Revision as of 19:57, 27 December 2024
Introduction
VitalRail is a comprehensive strategy for enhancing the sustainability and productivity of our industrial systems by expanding freight rail service. The need and opportunity for railroad development to address environmental challenges and transportation efficiency has never been greater. North America enjoys perhaps the world's most productive freight rail system, but the industry’s $115 billion annual revenue starkly contrasts with the freight trucking industry’s $1 trillion yearly revenue.
Yet rail offers superior space, energy, and capital efficiencies, and growing freight railroads will contribute cascading benefits to all stakeholders. Consider the impact of space efficiency on highway capacity: a one-mile-long train moves the same goods as a 27-mile convoy of trucks on the road. And rail's energy efficiency allows it to move freight on 1/4 to 1/2 the fuel and emissions of trucks.
However, we need more from railroads than they can do themselves. Fortunately, railroads do not need a government bailout; they outperform many other industries. That stability, combined with rail technology’s inherent efficiencies, will deliver a high return on investment when the involved stakeholder groups work together to expand the rail transportation system.
VitalRail Stakeholders
Collaboration among stakeholders is fundamental to achieving this tremendous growth opportunity for railroads, rail-related service providers, and the industries and communities they serve. VitalRail engages fourteen “Interdependent Stakeholder Groups”: Class I Railroad Executives, Class II and III Railroad Leaders, Investors and Banks, Rail Employees, Citizens, Customers, Suppliers, Economic Developers, Transportation Planners, Land Developers, Realtors and Site Selectors, Researchers, Other Transportation Services and Modes, and Elected Leaders. Learn more about Stakeholders.
IntelliConferences
VitalRail convenes stakeholder IntelliConferences to plan at the level needed to advance this deeply interconnected, invaluable industry. OnTrackNorthAmerica has identified an initial set of essential dialogues for expanding North America’s freight rail service.
